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#399 Wisely Ordering Autoantibodies - ACP IM2023

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The Importance of Early Rheumatoid Imaging

I usually get them upfront in part because if you get some of that ambiguity and you see some evidence of interstitial lung disease on chest x-ray, obviously not the best tool for that. Or if you, and this may not happen per se within six to 12 months, but let's see, you get hand x-rays at the start of this appointment. Yeah. And you find there are actual erosions involving the MCPs or PIPs, kind of these periorticular erosions. Right. I mean, essentially, that right. erosions, a positive rheumatoid factor and ESR, all these clinical symptoms like that starting to

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