Description

• Each chapter begins with a general overview of how the sub-specialty field has developed in the last 50 years, the innovations that have encouraged progress, and what lies in store for the future.
• The authors cover the purpose, patients, study design, results, critique, and significance and importance of each paper.
• Provides opinions from internationally renowned and highly respected members of the rheumatology community on how contemporary practice has been shaped by seminal pieces of research.

Rheumatic disease is a major cause of morbidity and disability in the Western world. There have been major developments in our understanding of the causes of rheumatic disease and in their treatment during the last half-century, and there are relatively few papers which can be regarded as truly 'landmark' in their construction and subsequent findings.
Part of the Landmark Papers in series, this book provides a detailed review of the seminal papers that have paved the way for breakthroughs in the clinical management of the entire spectrum of rheumatic diseases.