Edited by
John H. Klippel
John H. Stone
Leslie J. Crofford
Patience H. White

2008

Students, residents, and fellows interested in learning about the rheumatic diseases are faced with the daunting challenge of trying to integrate learning about a multitude of fascinating and diverse clinical disorders with an ever-expanding and complex body of basic science. This need encapsulates the principal rationale for the major changes in the 13th edition of The Primer on the Rheumatic Diseases.