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Extended reports

• Calcium apatite crystals in synovial fluid rice bodies (1 May, 2002)

  J Li-Yu, G M Clayburne, M S Sieck, S E Walker, B H Athreya, R J DeHoratius, H R Schumacher
• Characterisation of the cell type-specificity of collagenase 3 mRNA expression in comparison with membrane type 1 matrix metalloproteinase and gelatinase A in the synovial membrane in rheumatoid arthritis (1 May, 2002)

  P K Petrow, D Wernicke, C Schulze Westhoff, K M Hummel, R Bräuer, J Kriegsmann, E Gromnica-Ihle, R E Gay, S Gay
• Clinical, immunological, and immunogenetic aspects of autoantibody production against Ro/SSA, La/SSB and their linear epitopes in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS): a European multicentre study (1 May, 2002)

  A G Tzioufas, R Wassmuth, U G Dafni, A Guialis, H-J Haga, D A Isenberg, R Jonsson, J R Kalden, H Kiener, C Sakarellos, J S Smolen, N Sutcliffe, C Vitali, E Yiannaki, H M Moutsopoulos
• Pregnancy and oral contraceptive use do not significantly influence outcome in long term rheumatoid arthritis (1 May, 2002)

  K W Drossaers-Bakker, A H Zwinderman, D van Zeben, F C Breedveld, J M W Hazes
• Outcome of a cohort of 300 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus attending a dedicated clinic for over two decades (1 May, 2002)

  K E Moss, Y Ioannou, S M Sultan, I Haq, D A Isenberg
• Critical illness in systemic lupus erythematosus and the antiphospholipid syndrome (1 May, 2002)

  F M K Williams, S Chinn, G R V Hughes, R M Leach
• Effect of pain reduction on postural sway, proprioception, and quadriceps strength in subjects with knee osteoarthritis (1 May, 2002)

  B S Hassan, S A Doherty, S Mockett, M Doherty
• Work status and productivity costs due to ankylosing spondylitis: comparison of three European countries (1 May, 2002)

  A Boonen, D van der Heijde, R Landewé, A Spoorenberg, H Schouten, M Rutten-Van Mölken, F Guillemin, M Dougados, H Mielants, K de Vlam, H van der Tempel, Sj van der Linden
• γδ T cell subsets in patients with arthritis and chronic neutropenia (1 May, 2002)

  I Bank, L Cohen, M Mouallem, Z Farfel, E Grossman, A Ben-Nun
• Delayed examination of synovial fluid by ordinary and polarised light microscopy to detect and identify crystals (1 May, 2002)

  J Gálvez, E Sáiz, L F Linares, A Climent, C Marras, M F Pina, P Castellón
• Comparison of rheumatological and gastrointestinal symptoms after infection with Campylobacter jejuni/coli and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli

  (1 May, 2002)

  H Locht, K A Krogfelt