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Consistently Good Clinical Response in Patients with Early Axial Spondyloarthritis After 3 Years of Continuous Treatment with Etanercept: Longterm Data of the ESTHER Trial

In-Ho Song, Kay-Geert Hermann, Hildrun Haibel, Christian E. Althoff, Denis Poddubnyy, Joachim Listing, Anja Weiß, Beate Buß, Bruce Freundlich, Ekkehard Lange, Rieke Alten, Martin Rudwaleit and Joachim Sieper
The Journal of Rheumatology October 2014, 41 (10) 2034-2040; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.140056
In-Ho Song
From the Department of Rheumatology and the Department of Radiology, Charité Medical University, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin; German Rheumatism Research Center, Berlin, Germany; Division of Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Pfizer; Schlosspark-Klinik; Endokrinologikum, Berlin, Germany.
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ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
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