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Incidence of rheumatoid arthritis-related ankle replacement and ankle arthrodesis: A Finnish nationwide register-based study from 1997–2010

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: For 20 years, medical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been improving and the incidence of joint surgery has decreased. We investigated the rates of primary ankle joint arthrodesis and total ankle arthroplasty in patients with RA in Finland between 1997 and 2010 to...

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Autores principales: Kokkonen, Ari, Jämsen, Esa, Belt, Eero A, Lehto, Matti U K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Informa Healthcare 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23992138
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17453674.2013.831319