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Extended reports

• Initiation of biological agents in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: results of a Delphi study by the ASAS Group (15 August, 2003) Free

  T Pham, D van der Heijde, A Calin, M A Khan, Sj van der Linden, N Bellamy, M Dougados
• International ASAS consensus statement for the use of anti-tumour necrosis factor agents in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (15 August, 2003) Free

  J Braun, T Pham, J Sieper, J Davis, Sj van der Linden, M Dougados, D van der Heijde
• Scintigraphic detection of tumour necrosis factor in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (15 August, 2003) Free

  P Barrera, W J G Oyen, O C Boerman, P L C M van Riel
• Systematic safety follow up in a cohort of 107 patients with spondyloarthropathy treated with infliximab: a new perspective on the role of host defence in the pathogenesis of the disease? (15 August, 2003) Free

  D Baeten, E Kruithof, F Van den Bosch, N Van den Bossche, A Herssens, H Mielants, F De Keyser, E M Veys
• Quantification of the influence of cigarette smoking on rheumatoid arthritis: results from a population based case-control study, using incident cases (15 August, 2003) Free

  P Stolt, C Bengtsson, B Nordmark, S Lindblad, I Lundberg, L Klareskog, L Alfredsson
• Influence of glucocorticoids and disease activity on total and high density lipoprotein cholesterol in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (15 August, 2003) Free

  M Boers, M T Nurmohamed, C J A Doelman, L R Lard, A C Verhoeven, A E Voskuyl, T W J Huizinga, R J van de Stadt, B A C Dijkmans, Sj van der Linden
• Factors associated with coronary artery calcification in young female patients with SLE (15 August, 2003) Free

  K Manger, M Kusus, C Forster, D Ropers, W G Daniel, J R Kalden, S Achenbach, B Manger
• Perturbations of peripheral B lymphocyte homoeostasis in children with systemic lupus erythematosus (15 August, 2003) Free

  M Odendahl, R Keitzer, U Wahn, F Hiepe, A Radbruch, T Dörner, R Bunikowski
• Contribution of the initial features of systemic lupus erythematosus to the clinical evolution and survival of a cohort of Mediterranean patients (15 August, 2003) Free

  S Buján, J Ordi-Ros, J Paredes, M Mauri, L Matas, J Cortés, M Vilardell
• Reactive arthritis after an outbreak of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotype O:3 infection

  (15 August, 2003) Free

  T Hannu, L Mattila, J P Nuorti, P Ruutu, J Mikkola, A Siitonen, M Leirisalo-Repo
• Clinical utility of the anti-CCP assay in patients with rheumatic diseases (15 August, 2003) Free

  D M Lee, P H Schur
• Mental wellbeing and quality of sexual life in women with primary Sjögren’s syndrome are related to circulating dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (15 August, 2003) Free

  S Th Valtysdottir, L Wide, R Hallgren
• Effect of a three month course of ciprofloxacin on the late prognosis of reactive arthritis (15 August, 2003) Free

  T Yli-Kerttula, R Luukkainen, U Yli-Kerttula, T Möttönen, M Hakola, M Korpela, M Sanila, J Uksila, A Toivanen
• Physical activity and health related physical fitness in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (15 August, 2003) Free

  T Takken, J van der Net, W Kuis, P J M Helders