Can clinical factors at presentation be used to predict outcome of treatment with methotrexate in patients with early inflammatory polyarthritis?

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Published in Ann Rheum Dis on February 21, 2008

Authors

S L Hider1, A J Silman, W Thomson, M Lunt, D Bunn, D P M Symmons

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1: arc Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, UK.

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