Protective effect of gold rings and rheumatoid arthritis
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Protective effect of gold rings and rheumatoid arthritis.
I found the article of Mulherin and colleagues regarding a presumably protective eVect of gold rings against articular erosions in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) very interesting, but it surely raises more problems than it can solve. A few years ago we published a similar observation that contradicts the hypothesis that the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joint of the left ring finger would have remained ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.57.5.323