Background Various observations have suggested that the course of COVID-19 might be
less favourable in patients with inflammatory rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases …

Objective: To evaluate the ability of the widely used ACR set of criteria (both list and tree
format) to diagnose RA compared with expert opinion according to disease duration. Methods: …

Objective. To date, early diagnosis of stress fractures depends on magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) or bone scan scintigraphy, as radiographs are usually normal at onset of symptoms…

Objective. To assess ultrasonography's (US) performance to detect the structural damage in
the initial evaluation of early arthritis (EA) using the Etude et Suivides Polyarthrites …

… Jacques Morel, MD, PhD Marie Locci, MD Frédéric Banal, MD Bernard Combe, MD, PhD
Grégoire Cormier, MD Maxime Dougados, MD René-Marc Flipo, MD, PhD Christian Marcelli …

The splenic complications of acute malaria include two different prognostic and treatment
entities: splenic infarction and splenic rupture. This is the first case of splenic infarction during …

… *Gaël Cinquetti and Frédéric Banal contributed equally to this work. … The authors thank
Helen and Olivier Banal for their contributions to the English manuscript. We also thank the …

Objective To study the profile of type-2 diabetes (T2D) in patients with RA or OA. Methods
This observational, multicentre, cross-sectional study included, over a 24-month period, …

To the Editor: A 78-year-old man with no ocular history was admitted for low back pain. His
medical history revealed prostate cancer diagnosed in August 2004 after transurethral …

Septic bursitis (SB) is a common condition accounting for one third of all cases of inflammatory
bursitis. It is often related to professional activities. Management is heterogeneous and …