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Extended reports

• The shape of the distal femur: a palaeopathological comparison of eburnated and non-eburnated femora (1 February, 1999)

  Lee Shepstone, Juliet Rogers, John Kirwan, Bernard Silverman
• Influence of sulphasalazine, methotrexate, and the combination of both on plasma homocysteine concentrations in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (1 February, 1999)

  Cees J Haagsma, Henk J Blom, Piet L C M van Riel, Martin A van’t Hof, Belinda A J Giesendorf, Dinny van Oppenraaij-Emmerzaal, Levinus B A van de Putte
• Neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus is associated with imbalance in interleukin 10 promoter haplotypes (1 February, 1999)

  M J Rood, V Keijsers, M W van der Linden, T Q T Tong, S E Borggreve, C L Verweij, F C Breedveld, T W J Huizinga
• ¹¹¹Indium antimyosin antibody imaging of primary myocardial invovement in systemic diseases

  (1 February, 1999)

  L Sarda, P Assayag, E Palazzo, D Vilain, L Guillevin, M Faraggi, O Meyer, D Le Guludec
• A quantitative method for detecting deposits of amyloid A protein in aspirated fat tissue of patients with arthritis (1 February, 1999)

  Bouke P C Hazenberg, Pieter C Limburg, Johan Bijzet, Martin H van Rijswijk
• Optimised sample preparation of synovial fluid for detection ofChlamydia trachomatis DNA by polymerase chain reaction

  (1 February, 1999)

  Jens G Kuipers, Lars Nietfeld, Ute Dreses-Werringloer, Lars Koehler, Juergen Wollenhaupt, Henning Zeidler, Michael Hammer
• Destruction of articular cartilage by alpha₂macroglobulin elastase complexes: role in rheumatoid arthritis

  (1 February, 1999)

  Adrian R Moore, Andrew Appelboam, Kazuhito Kawabata, José A P Da Silva, David D’Cruz, Gerald Gowland, Derek A Willoughby