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Extended reports

• A pragmatic randomised controlled trial of local corticosteroid injection and physiotherapy for the treatment of new episodes of unilateral shoulder pain in primary care (1 May, 2003)

  E M Hay, E Thomas, S M Paterson, K Dziedzic, P R Croft
• Suprascapular nerve block (using bupivacaine and methylprednisolone acetate) in chronic shoulder pain (1 May, 2003)

  E M Shanahan, M Ahern, M Smith, M Wetherall, B Bresnihan, O FitzGerald
• Diagnostic strategy for the assessment of rheumatoid vasculitis (1 May, 2003)

  A E Voskuyl, J M W Hazes, A H Zwinderman, E M Paleolog, F J M van der Meer, M R Daha, F C Breedveld
• Arterial stiffness and central blood pressure, as determined by pulse wave analysis, in rheumatoid arthritis (1 May, 2003)

  R Klocke, J R Cockcroft, G J Taylor, I R Hall, D R Blake
• Applying low disease activity criteria using the DAS28 to assess stability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 May, 2003)

  H J M Vrijhoef, J P M Diederiks, C Spreeuwenberg, Sj Van der Linden
• Factors associated with toxicity, final dose, and efficacy of methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 May, 2003)

  M Hoekstra, A E van Ede, C J Haagsma, M A F J van de Laar, T W J Huizinga, M W M Kruijsen, R F J M Laan
• Autoantibodies can be prognostic markers of an erosive disease in early rheumatoid arthritis (1 May, 2003)

  J Vencovský, S Macháček, L Šedová, J Kafková, J Gatterová, V Pešáková, Š Růžičková
• Anti-chromatin antibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus: a useful marker for lupus nephropathy (1 May, 2003)

  R Cervera, O Viñas, M Ramos-Casals, J Font, M García-Carrasco, A Sisó, F Ramírez, Y Machuca, J Vives, M Ingelmo, R W Burlingame
• Improved clinical outcome of lupus nephritis during the past decade: importance of early diagnosis and treatment (1 May, 2003)

  C Fiehn, Y Hajjar, K Mueller, R Waldherr, A D Ho, K Andrassy
• Active leflunomide metabolite inhibits interleukin 1β, tumour necrosis factor α, nitric oxide, and metalloproteinase-3 production in activated human synovial tissue cultures (1 May, 2003)

  O Elkayam, I Yaron, I Shirazi, R Judovitch, D Caspi, M Yaron
• Nailfold capillary microscopy in healthy children and in childhood rheumatic diseases: a prospective single blind observational study (1 May, 2003)

  P Dolezalova, S P Young, P A Bacon, T R Southwood
• How do GPs use x rays to manage chronic knee pain in the elderly? A case study

  (1 May, 2003)

  J Bedson, K Jordan, P Croft
• Anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae IgA antibodies are raised in ankylosing spondylitis and undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy

  (1 May, 2003)

  I E A Hoffman, P Demetter, M Peeters, M De Vos, H Mielants, E M Veys, F De Keyser
• Expression of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in diffuse systemic sclerosis (1 May, 2003)

  E Selvi, S A Tripodi, M Catenaccio, S Lorenzini, D Chindamo, S Manganelli, R Romagnoli, F Ietta, L Paulesu, C Miracco, M Cintorino, R Marcolongo
• Skewed balance in basal expression and regulation of activating v inhibitory Fcγ receptors in macrophages of collagen induced arthritis sensitive mice

  (1 May, 2003)

  A B Blom, P L E M van Lent, A E M Holthuysen, C Jacobs, W B van den Berg