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Published in: Current Rheumatology Reports 4/2013

01-04-2013 | PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS (O FITZGERALD AND P HELLIWELL, SECTION EDITORS)

Classification Criteria: Peripheral Spondyloarthropathy and Psoriatic Arthritis

Authors: William J. Taylor, Philip C. Robinson

Published in: Current Rheumatology Reports | Issue 4/2013

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Abstract

Recent proposals for re-classification of spondyloarthropathies according to the predominance of peripheral and axial manifestations and for non-radiographic ankylosing spondylitis to be re-named axial spondyloarthritis are reviewed. It is argued that such proposals are less likely to advance knowledge in the study of spondyloarthopathies and that accurate classification criteria for defined diseases, for example psoriatic arthritis, remain as necessary now as they ever did. The CASPAR criteria remain the best performing classification criteria for psoriatic arthritis.
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Metadata
Title
Classification Criteria: Peripheral Spondyloarthropathy and Psoriatic Arthritis
Authors
William J. Taylor
Philip C. Robinson
Publication date
01-04-2013
Publisher
Current Science Inc.
Published in
Current Rheumatology Reports / Issue 4/2013
Print ISSN: 1523-3774
Electronic ISSN: 1534-6307
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-013-0317-3

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