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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on March 7, 2006
Rheumatology 2006 45(6):779; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel068
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Re: Surgery in rheumatoid arthritis

K. Trieb

KlinikumFrankfurt/Oder, Department of Orthopedics, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany

Correspondence to: k.trieb.co{at}klinikumffo.de

SIR, I read with great interest the review on published studies of hand surgery in rheumatoid arthritis by Ghattas et al. [1], which gives the state of the art on the literature for this topic. In their key messages (p. 841), the authors state that medical therapy has reduced the need for surgery in rheumatoid arthritis. Unfortunately they do not provide any data or references which support this statement. Could the authors clarify this point, which might be responsible for misunderstandings between rheumatologists and orthopaedic surgeons.

The author has declared no conflicts of interest.

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  1. Ghattas L, Mascella F, Pomponio G. Hand surgery in rheumatoid arthritis: state of the art and suggestions for research. Rheumatology 2005;44:834–45.[Abstract/Free Full Text]
Accepted 7 February 2006


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