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Polymyalgia rheumatica can be distinguished from late onset rheumatoid arthritis at baseline: results of a 5-yr prospective study.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - 1 Feb 2009
Pease C T, Haugeberg G, Montague B, Hensor E M A, Bhakta B B, Thomson W, Ollier W E R, Morgan A W
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OBJECTIVE: To describe the pattern of arthropathy and HLA-DRB1 alleles associated with PMR in order to develop a diagnostic algorithm that could help distinguish PMR and RF-negative (RF -ve) late-onset RA (LO-RA) at presentation. METHODS: This was a prospective study of all patients presenting wi...
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