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Rheumatology Advance Access published online on January 29, 2008
Rheumatology, doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kem367
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© The Author 2008. 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

RF latex and anti-CCP antibodies: a combined strategy for diagnosing RA in primary care?

A. Steuer1, J. Watkins1, F. Smith2, L. Day2, F. Demetriadi1 and H. Chapel2

1Department of Rheumatology and 2Department of Immunology, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berks SL2 4HL, UK.

Correspondence to: A. Steuer, Department of Rheumatology, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berks SL2 4HL, UK. E-mail: alan.steuer@hwph-tr.nhs.uk

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SIR, Deborah Symmons makes a strong case in your recent editorial that RF testing should not be abandoned but used in conjunction with anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibodies in the diagnosis of early RA in secondary care [1]. Whilst combining RF with anti-CCP antibodies may add some additional diagnostic and prognostic information, there is a consensus view that measuring anti-CCP antibodies . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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