Rheumatology

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Rheumatology is defined as "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".[1]

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Rheumatology. Retrieved on 2007-12-13.

See also

External links

Classification Criteria for Rheumatic Diseases