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Primary Inflammatory Arthropathies 2. Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Atlas of Synovial Fluid Cytopathology

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Rheumatoid arthritis, or more correctly rheumatoid disease, is the most common of the primary inflammatory arthropathies and also the disorder which has the greatest number of characteristic features on synovial fluid cytoanalysis.

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  1. Department of Osteoarticular Pathology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    A. J. Freemont MD, FRCP(E), MRCPath & J. Denton MSc

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Freemont, A.J., Denton, J. (1991). Primary Inflammatory Arthropathies 2. Rheumatoid Arthritis. In: Atlas of Synovial Fluid Cytopathology. Current Histopathology, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3828-4_15

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