Synovitis in rheumatoid arthritis: Scoring of characteristic histopathological features
โ Scribed by Fumitomo Koizumi; Hiroaki Matsuno; Kunihiko Wakaki; Yoko Ishii; Yoichi Kurashige; Hiroshi Nakamura
- Book ID
- 114430834
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 634 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1320-5463
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One hundred forty-five synovial biopsy specimens were obtained from 30 procedures performed on the knee joints of 29 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. All patients had clinically active rheumatoid arthritis and none had received slow-acting disease-modifying drugs or intraarticular corticosteroids
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