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BioMed Central, BMC Public Health, 1(7), 2007

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-260

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Erosive Arthropathy in systemic sclerosis

Journal article published in 2007 by Fadoua Allali, Latifa Tahiri, Adil Senjari, Redouane Abouqal ORCID, Najia Hajjaj-Hassouni
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Abstract

Abstract Background To determine radiological features of arthropathy in systemic sclerosis patients with polyarthritis. Results Forty one women and 5 men were included in this study. The mean age was 41 + 14,2 years, the mean duration of disease was 10,5+ 6,5 years. Thirty seven patients (80%) had radiological abnormalities including joint space narrowing (37%) and erosions (43%). At presentation, the prevalence of radiological foot abnormalities was lower than that of hands (26% vs 79%, p