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The future of imaging in monitoring biologic therapy

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  1. JE Freeston is a Specialist Registrar and P Emery is a Professor of Rheumatology and the Lead Clinician at the Leeds Teaching Hospital, Leeds, UK.,

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Freeston, J., Emery, P. The future of imaging in monitoring biologic therapy. Nat Rev Rheumatol 3, 2–3 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncprheum0381

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