Rheumatology
"Rheumatology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of inflammatory or degenerative processes and metabolic derangement of connective tissue structures which pertain to a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, such as arthritis.
| Descriptor ID |
D012219
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| MeSH Number(s) |
H02.403.429.730
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rheumatology" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Rheumatology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Rheumatology" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Naranjo A, Khan NA, Cutolo M, Lee SS, Lazovskis J, Laas K, Pandya S, Sokka T. Smoking cessation advice by rheumatologists: results of an international survey. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2014 Oct; 53(10):1825-9.