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Extended reports

• Sustained maintenance of exercise induced muscle strength gains and normal bone mineral density in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: a 5 year follow up (12 July, 2004)

  A Häkkinen, T Sokka, H Kautiainen, A Kotaniemi, P Hannonen
• Sequential changes of parathyroid hormone related protein (PTHrP) in articular cartilage during progression of inflammatory and degenerative arthritis (12 July, 2004)

  E Gómez-Barrena, O Sánchez-Pernaute, R Largo, E Calvo, P Esbrit, G Herrero-Beaumont
• Paracetamol in osteoarthritis of the knee (12 July, 2004)

  C Miceli-Richard, M Le Bars, N Schmidely, M Dougados
• Patient Preference for Placebo, Acetaminophen (paracetamol) or Celecoxib Efficacy Studies (PACES): two randomised, double blind, placebo controlled, crossover clinical trials in patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (13 April, 2004)

  T Pincus, G Koch, H Lei, B Mangal, T Sokka, R Moskowitz, F Wolfe, A Gibofsky, L Simon, S Zlotnick, J G Fort
• Bone loss in patients treated with pulses of methylprednisolone is not negligible: a short term prospective observational study (12 July, 2004)

  G Haugeberg, B Griffiths, K B Sokoll, P Emery
• Quantitative ultrasound and bone mineral density: discriminatory ability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and controls with and without vertebral deformities (12 July, 2004)

  R E Ørstavik, G Haugeberg, T Uhlig, P Mowinckel, T K Kvien, J A Falch, J I Halse
• Increased incidence of cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a community based study (29 March, 2004)

  C Turesson, A Jarenros, L Jacobsson
• Miscarriage but not fecundity is associated with progression of joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis (12 July, 2004)

  F M van Dunné, L R Lard, D Rook, F M Helmerhorst, T W J Huizinga
• Renal clearance and daily excretion of cortisol and adrenal androgens in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus (12 July, 2004)

  R H Straub, C Weidler, B Demmel, M Herrmann, F Kees, M Schmidt, J Schölmerich, J Schedel
• Relative risk of knee chondrocalcinosis in siblings of index cases with pyrophosphate arthropathy (12 July, 2004)

  W Zhang, R Neame, S Doherty, M Doherty
• Autologous stem cell transplantation in the treatment of systemic sclerosis: report from the EBMT/EULAR Registry (12 July, 2004)

  D Farge, J Passweg, J M van Laar, Z Marjanovic, C Besenthal, J Finke, H H Peter, F C Breedveld, W E Fibbe, C Black, C Denton, I Koetter, F Locatelli, A Martini, A V N Schattenberg, F van den Hoogen, L van de Putte, F Lanza, R Arnold, P A Bacon, S Bingham, F Ciceri, B Didier, J L Diez-Martin, P Emery, W Feremans, B Hertenstein, F Hiepe, R Luosujärvi, A Leon Lara, A Marmont, A M Martinez, H Pascual Cascon, C Bocelli-Tyndall, E Gluckman, A Gratwohl, A Tyndall
• Mapping of the immunodominant T cell epitopes of the protein topoisomerase I (12 July, 2004)

  S Veeraraghavan, E A Renzoni, H Jeal, M Jones, J Hammer, A U Wells, C M Black, K I Welsh, R M du Bois
• Standard reference values for musculoskeletal ultrasonography (12 July, 2004)

  W A Schmidt, H Schmidt, B Schicke, E Gromnica-Ihle
• Non-invasive imaging in the diagnosis and management of Takayasu’s arteritis (12 July, 2004)

  J Andrews, A Al-Nahhas, D J Pennell, M S Hossain, K A Davies, D O Haskard, J C Mason