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Concise report

• Lower frequency of focal lip sialadenitis (focus score) in smoking patients. Can tobacco diminish the salivary gland involvement as judged by histological examination and anti-SSA/Ro and anti-SSB/La antibodies in Sjögren's syndrome? (1 January, 2000)

  R Manthorpe, C Benoni, L Jacobsson, Z Kirtava, Å Larsson, R Liedholm, C Nyhagen, H Tabery, E Theander
• Selectin adhesion molecules in Behçet's disease (1 January, 2000)

  Şeminur Haznedaroǧlu, Yaşar Karaaslan, Yahya Büyükaşık, Ali Koşar, Osman I˙ Özcebe, I˙brahim C Haznedaroǧlu, Şerafettin Kirazlı, Semra V Dündar
• No serological indications that systemic lupus erythematosus is linked with exposure to human parvovirus B19 (1 January, 2000)

  Anders Bengtsson, Anders Widell, Sölve Elmståhl, Gunnar Sturfelt
• Characterisation of uveitis in patients with psoriatic arthritis (1 January, 2000)

  Eduardo S Paiva, Damien C Macaluso, Albert Edwards, James T Rosenbaum
• Increased serum C reactive protein may reflect events that precede radiographic progression in osteoarthritis of the knee (1 January, 2000)

  M Sharif, L Shepstone, C J Elson, P A Dieppe, J R Kirwan
• Reduced incidence of alcohol related deaths in subjects with rheumatoid arthritis (1 January, 2000)

  Riitta Myllykangas-Luosujärvi, Kimmo Aho, Hannu Kautiainen, Markku Hakala
• Acute myocardial infarction associated with high dose intravenous immunoglobulin infusion for autoimmune disorders. A study of four cases (1 January, 2000)

  Ori Elkayam, Daphna Paran, Ronny Milo, Yaron Davidovitz, Dorit Almoznino-Sarafian, David Zeltser, Michael Yaron, Dan Caspi