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Original paper

The foot: still the most important reason for walking incapacity in rheumatoid arthritis: Distribution of symptomatic joints in 1,000 RA patients

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Pages 257-261 | Received 12 Dec 2007, Accepted 11 Oct 2007, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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