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  • Title: Diagnosis of rheumatic disease. 1. Radiographs.
    Author: Bluestone R.
    Journal: Postgrad Med; 1979 Mar; 65(3):64-73. PubMed ID: 310998.
    Abstract:
    Radiographs are a clinician's most valuable tool in differential diagnosis of rheumatic disease and in assessment of its severity. The patterns of joint involvement and the specific bony changes characteristic of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter's syndrome and psoriatic arthritis, gout, and systemic lupus erythematosus are discussed here.
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