Table of contents

Extended report

• Does social disadvantage contribute to the excess mortality in rheumatoid arthritis patients? (1 September, 1999)

  N Maiden, H A Capell, R Madhok, R Hampson, E A Thomson
• No effect of bipolar interferential electrotherapy and pulsed ultrasound for soft tissue shoulder disorders: a randomised controlled trial (1 September, 1999)

  Geert J M G van der Heijden, Pieter Leffers, Pieter J M C Wolters, José J D Verheijden, Henk van Mameren, Jo P Houben, Lex M Bouter, Paul G Knipschild
• Decreased serum biochemical markers of muscle origin in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (1 September, 1999)

  Erik J Giltay, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Louis J G Gooren, Piet J Kostense, Ben A C Dijkmans
• Characterisation of T cell clonotypes that accumulated in multiple joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 September, 1999)

  Manae Kurokawa, Tomohiro Kato, Kayo Masuko-Hongo, Shin-ichiro Ueda, Tetsuji Kobata, Mitsuo Okubo, Tomoe Nishimaki, Tatsuya Akaza, Shin-ich Yoshino, Reiji Kasukawa, Kusuki Nishioka, Kazuhiko Yamamoto
• Double blind glucocorticoid controlled trial of samarium-153 particulate hydroxyapatite radiation synovectomy for chronic knee synovitis (1 September, 1999)

  E K O’Duffy, G P R Clunie, D Lui, J C W Edwards, P J Ell
• The value of synovial fluid analysis in the assessment of knee joint destruction in arthritis in a three year follow up study (1 September, 1999)

  S Åman, J Risteli, R Luukkainen, L Risteli, M Kauppi, P Nieminen, M Hakala
• Rasch analysis of the Western Ontario MacMaster Questionnaire (WOMAC) in 2205 patients with osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and fibromyalgia (1 September, 1999)

  Frederick Wolfe, Sheldon X Kong
• Projecting the need for hip replacement over the next three decades: influence of changing demography and threshold for surgery (1 September, 1999)

  Fraser Birrell, Olof Johnell, Alan Silman
• Tumour necrosis factor α stimulated rheumatoid synovial microvascular endothelial cells exhibit increased shear rate dependent leucocyte adhesion in vitro (1 September, 1999)

  S E Abbot, W J D Whish, C Jennison, D R Blake, C R Stevens