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Teleradiotherapy of joints in rheumatoid arthritis: lack of efficacy
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- Published on: 27 April 2005
- Published on: 27 April 2005Radiotherapy in painful skeletal disorders - Dose does really matter!Show More
Dear Editor,
We read with great interest the report of Graninger et al. about a small randomized study on local radiotherapy of painful joints in rheumatoid arthritis [1]: They treated series of six patients on one painful site with a total dose of 20 Gy in 10 daily fractions. A single inflamed joint on the contralateral side of the body was used as internal control and received sham irradiation. Swelling and t...
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