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Extended reports

• EULAR evidence-based recommendations on the management of systemic glucocorticoid therapy in rheumatic diseases (27 July, 2007) Free

  J N Hoes, J W G Jacobs, M Boers, D Boumpas, F Buttgereit, N Caeyers, E H Choy, M Cutolo, J A P Da Silva, G Esselens, L Guillevin, I Hafstrom, J R Kirwan, J Rovensky, A Russell, K G Saag, B Svensson, R Westhovens, H Zeidler, J W J Bijlsma
• Tissue chimerism in systemic lupus erythematosus is related to injury (21 June, 2007)

  Idske C L Kremer Hovinga, Marije Koopmans, Hans J Baelde, Emile de Heer, Jan A Bruijn, Ingeborg M Bajema
• Endothelial protein C receptor is overexpressed in rheumatoid arthritic (RA) synovium and mediates the anti-inflammatory effects of activated protein C in RA monocytes (9 May, 2007)

  Meilang Xue, Lyn March, Philip N Sambrook, Kenji Fukudome, Christopher J Jackson
• High-grade MRI bone oedema is common within the surgical field in rheumatoid arthritis patients undergoing joint replacement and is associated with osteitis in subchondral bone (9 May, 2007) Free

  F M McQueen, A Gao, M Østergaard, A King, G Shalley, E Robinson, A Doyle, B Clark, N Dalbeth
• HLA-DRB1*0404 is strongly associated with anticalpastatin antibodies in rheumatoid arthritis (26 February, 2007)

  Isabelle Auger, Chantal Roudier, Sandrine Guis, Nathalie Balandraud, Jean Roudier
• Bone mineral density in patients with hand osteoarthritis compared to population controls and patients with rheumatoid arthritis (14 May, 2007)

  I K Haugen, B Slatkowsky-Christensen, R Ørstavik, T K Kvien
• Synovitis detected on magnetic resonance imaging and its relation to pain and cartilage loss in knee osteoarthritis (9 May, 2007)

  Catherine L Hill, David J Hunter, Jingbo Niu, Margaret Clancy, Ali Guermazi, Harry Genant, Daniel Gale, Andrew Grainger, Philip Conaghan, David T Felson
• Associations between the PTPN22 1858C→T polymorphism and radiographic joint destruction in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: results from a 10-year longitudinal study

  (1 May, 2007)

  Benedicte A Lie, Marte K Viken, Sigrid Ødegård, Désirée van der Heijde, Robert Landewé, Till Uhlig, Tore K Kvien
• Comparison of in vitro-specific blood tests with tuberculin skin test for diagnosis of latent tuberculosis before anti-TNF therapy (24 April, 2007)

  Jérémie Sellam, Haifa Hamdi, Carine Roy, Gabriel Baron, Marc Lemann, Xavier Puéchal, Maxime Breban, Francis Berenbaum, Marc Humbert, Karin Weldingh, Dominique Salmon, Philippe Ravaud, Dominique Emilie, Xavier Mariette
• Epigenetic regulation of leptin affects MMP-13 expression in osteoarthritic chondrocytes: possible molecular target for osteoarthritis therapeutic intervention (14 May, 2007)

  D Iliopoulos, K N Malizos, A Tsezou
• Joint-specific hand symptoms and self-reported and performance-based functional status in African–Americans and Caucasians: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project (15 May, 2007)

  A L Elliott, V B Kraus, F Fang, J B Renner, T A Schwartz, A Salazar, T Huguenin, M C Hochberg, C G Helmick, J M Jordan
• A closer look at non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma cases in a national Swedish systemic lupus erythematosus cohort: a nested case-control study (21 May, 2007)

  B Löfström, C Backlin, C Sundström, A Ekbom, I E Lundberg
• Comparison of composite measures of disease activity in an early seropositive rheumatoid arthritis cohort (1 May, 2007)

  Veena K Ranganath, Jeonglim Yoon, Dinesh Khanna, Grace S Park, Daniel E Furst, David A Elashoff, Damini Jawaheer, John T Sharp, Richard H Gold, Edward C Keystone, Harold E Paulus
• Scleroderma lung study (SLS): differences in the presentation and course of patients with limited versus diffuse systemic sclerosis (7 May, 2007)

  Philip J Clements, Michael D Roth, Robert Elashoff, Donald P Tashkin, Jonathan Goldin, Richard M Silver, Mildred Sterz, James R Seibold, Dean Schraufnagel, Robert W Simms, Marcy Bolster, Robert A Wise, Virginia Steen, M D Mayes, Kari Connelly, Mark Metersky, Daniel E Furst
• Henoch–Schönlein purpura in children: an epidemiological study among Dutch paediatricians on incidence and diagnostic criteria (1 May, 2007)

  Joost Aalberse, Koerd Dolman, Gracita Ramnath, Rob Rodrigues Pereira, Jean-Claude Davin
• Development and validation of a scale for mouth handicap in systemic sclerosis: the Mouth Handicap in Systemic Sclerosis scale (14 May, 2007)

  L Mouthon, F Rannou, A Bérezné, C Pagnoux, J-P Arène, E Foïs, J Cabane, L Guillevin, M Revel, J Fermanian, S Poiraudeau
• Microscopic measurement of inflammation in synovial tissue: inter-observer agreement for manual quantitative, semiquantitative and computerised digital image analysis (29 June, 2007)

  Terence Rooney, Barry Bresnihan, Ulf Andersson, Martina Gogarty, Maarten Kraan, H Ralph Schumacher, Ann-Kristin Ulfgren, Douglas J Veale, Peter P Youssef, Paul P Tak
• Nucleosomes possess a high affinity for glomerular laminin and collagen IV and bind nephritogenic antibodies in murine lupus-like nephritis (15 May, 2007)

  J E Mjelle, O P Rekvig, K A Fenton