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Long-term patient reported outcomes of elbow, wrist and hand surgery for rheumatoid arthritis.

Chisa OkuraHajime IshikawaAsami AbeYukio YonemotoKoichi OkamuraTakahito SutoTomo OyakawaYusuke MiyagawaHiroshi OtaniSatoshi ItoDaisuke KobayashiKiyoshi NakazonoAkira MurasawaKenji TakagishiHirotaka Chikuda
Published in: International journal of rheumatic diseases (2018)
Our original patient-reported outcome assessment tool revealed that elbow, wrist and hand surgery provided long-lasting benefits in RA patients. While the efficacy differed in some of the surgical sites, pain relief was the most favorable effect. Altered medical therapy may also have impacted the patient-perceived outcomes of surgery at 10 years.
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