Classic Papers in Rheumatology

by Dieppe; Paul

• ISBN13: 9781901865486
• ISBN10: 1901865487
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-06
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

While an emphasis on the new is vital to any science, the relevance or importance of new discoveries cannot truly be appreciated without a strong sense of the framework of a discipline, and of the ideas that helped to shape it. With this in mind, the editors of this book have attempted to create a canon of texts that formed the basis of rheumatology. Experts on the diagnosis and management of the various rheumatological conditions have chosen what they consider to be the key papers in their respective domains. Every paper is carefully described and evaluated by its strengths, its weaknesses, and its contribution to the field. Papers have been chosen that define new diseases or treatments, that have changed our whole way of thinking, or that have simply stood the test of time. The editors hope that the papers profiled in this volume will stimulate debate, encourage readers to seek out the original texts, and inspire the writers of the classics of the 21st century.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Section 1: Diagnosis
Clinical outcome measurement	2	(13)
Nicholas Bellamy
W Watson Buchanan
Imaging	15	(18)
Inga Redlund-Johnell
Serological tests	33	(15)
Josef Smolen
Other investigations: synovial fluid analysis, arthroscopy and blood biochemistry	48	(16)
Paul Dieppe
Clinical genetics	64	(17)
Sophia Steer
Gabriel S Panayi
Section 2: Diseases
Rheumatoid arthritis	81	(27)
Frank A Wollheim
Chronic arthritis in children	108	(10)
Jacqui Clinch
Barbara Ansell
Ankylosing spondylitis	118	(16)
Muhammad Asim Khan
Psoriatic arthritis	134	(14)
Dafna D Gladman
Reactive arthritis and Reiter's syndrome	148	(16)
Henning K Zeidler
Lupus	164	(12)
Graham RV Hughes
Munther Khamashta
Scleroderma (systemic sclerosis)	176	(16)
E Carwile LeRoy
Systemic vasculitis	192	(10)
David GI Scott
Sjogren's syndrome	202	(20)
Roland Jonsson
Myositis	222	(14)
Frederick W Miller
Paul H Plotz
Arthritis and infection	236	(20)
Andrew Keat
Ralph C Williams, Jr
Osteoarthritis	256	(19)
Paul Dieppe
Crystal deposition diseases	275	(15)
Daniel J McCarty
Osteoporosis	290	(18)
Cyrus Cooper
Section 3: Regional and Miscellaneous Disorders
Back pain	308	(17)
Malcolm IV Jayson
Soft tissue disorders	325	(21)
Cathy Speed
Brian Hazleman
Fibromyalgia	346	(13)
Hugh Smythe
Geographical disorders	359	(16)
Adewale Adebajo
Associations of other systemic diseases with arthropathies	375	(16)
H Ralph Schumacher, Jr
Section 4: Therapy
Education	391	(16)
Ylva Lindroth
Key drug developments	407	(21)
Peter M Brooks
Exercise and rehabilitation in arthritis	428	(13)
Michael V Hurley
Index	441