Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 4:49PM EST

Surgical Therapy

1. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis undergoing surgery: how should we deal with antirheumatic treatment?

Author
Pieringer H; Stuby U; Biesenbach G;
Institution
Section of Rheumatology, 2nd Department of Medicine, General Hospital Linz, Linz, Austria. herwigpi@yahoo.com
Journal
Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2007 Apr;36(5):278-86. Epub 2007 Jan 3.
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2. The DUROM cup humeral surface replacement in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Surgical technique.

Author
Fuerst M; Fink B; Ruther W;
Institution
Department of Orthopedics, Rheumaklinik Bad Bramstedt, Bad Bramstedt, Germany. mfuerst@uke.uni-hamburg.de
Journal
J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2008 Oct;90 Suppl 2 Pt 2:287-98.
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3. The classic: total condylar knee replacement in patients who have rheumatoid arthritis. A ten-year follow-up study. 1990.

Author
Laskin RS;
Institution
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Long Island Jewish Medical Center Campus for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY, 11042, USA, dick.brand@clinorthop.org.
Journal
Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2008 Nov;466(11):2589-96. Epub 2008 Sep 16.
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4. GSB III total elbow replacement in rheumatoid arthritis.

Author
Cesar M; Roussanne Y; Bonnel F; Canovas F;
Institution
1Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatology Surgery Lapeyronie University Hospital, 371 Avenue du Doyen Gaston Giraud, 34295 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
Journal
J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2007 Mar;89(3):330-4.
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5. Long-term results of open elbow synovectomy for rheumatoid arthritis.

Author
Nakagawa N; Abe S; Saegusa Y; Imura S; Kubo H; Nishibayashi Y; Yoshiya S;
Institution
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Konan Kakogawa Hospital, 1545-1 Saijo, Kanno-cho, Kakogawa 675-8545, Japan. nnakagawa_kkb@knc.kakogawa.or.jp
Journal
Mod Rheumatol. 2007;17(2):106-9. Epub 2007 Apr 20.
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6. Orthopaedic surgery in patients with rheumatoid arthritis over 20 years: prevalence and predictive factors of large joint replacement.

Author
Kapetanovic MC; Lindqvist E; Saxne T; Eberhardt K;
Institution
Department of Rheumatology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden. meliha.crnkic@med.lu.se
Journal
Ann Rheum Dis. 2008 Oct;67(10):1412-6. Epub 2008 Jan 4.
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7. A systematic review of total wrist arthroplasty compared with total wrist arthrodesis for rheumatoid arthritis.

Author
Cavaliere CM; Chung KC;
Institution
Section of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Mich 48109-0340, USA. cresht@umich.edu
Journal
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2008 Sep;122(3):813-25.
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8. A comparison of survival of moulded monoblock and modular tibial components of 751 AGC total knee replacements in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Author
Himanen AK; Belt EA; Lehto MU; Hamalainen MM;
Institution
1Department of Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Tampere, 33014. Tampere, Finland.
Journal
J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2007 May;89(5):609-14.
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