Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (7)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Bruce, I. N.
Right arrow Articles by Silman, A. J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Bruce, I. N.
Right arrow Articles by Silman, A. J.
Related Collections
Right arrow Spondylarthropathies
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Rheumatology 2001; 40: 363-366
© 2001 British Society for Rheumatology

Editorial

The aetiology of psoriatic arthritis

I. N. Bruce and A. J. Silman1,

Central Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust and University of Manchester and
1 Arthritis Research Campaign Epidemiology Unit, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

There is little question that psoriatic arthropathy (PsA) is a poorly studied entity. At the recent 64th American College of Rheumatology meeting, abstracts relating to PsA were out numbered five to one by studies on systemic lupus erythematosus SLE, a condition of similar prevalence. The concept of PsA is not universally accepted, and even among those who accept the concept there is no internationally agreed definition or diagnostic criteria. For example, while Moll and Wright's [1] original definition described PsA as ‘an inflammatory arthritis associated with psoriasis and usually negative for rheumatoid factor’, some groups have excluded patients who are positive for rheumatoid factor [2].

It is accepted that psoriasis and inflammatory arthritis coexist more frequently than would be expected by the coincidence of two common conditions, i.e. psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [3, 4]. The explanation for this increased association has been . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 ANN INTERN MEDHome page
M. A. Khan
Update on Spondyloarthropathies
Ann Intern Med, June 18, 2002; 136(12): 896 - 907.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]