This updated edition of the Oxford Handbook of Rheumatology builds on the strengths of the previous editions, providing detailed information on rheumatological diseases and conditions, including a new and improved section on paediatric rheumatology.

• The presentation of rheumatic disease


• 1: Evaluating rheumatological and musculoskeletal (MSK) symptoms


• 2: Musculoskeletal (MSK) assessment and patterns of disease: making a working diagnosis


• 3: Regional Musculoskeletal Symptoms: making a working diagnosis


• 4: The spectrum of disorders associated with adult rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases


• The clinical features and management of rheumatic disease


• 5: Rheumatoid arthritis


• 6: Osteoarthritis


• 7: Crystal-induced musculoskeletal disease


• 8: The spondyloarthritides (SpAs) including psoriatic arthritis


• 9: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)


• 10: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)


• 11: Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS)


• 12: Sjögren's syndrome


• 13: Systemic sclerosis (SScl) and related disorders


• 14: Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies including polymyositis and dermatomyositis


• 15: Primary vasculitides


• 16: Metabolic bone diseases


• 17: Infection and rheumatic disease


• 18: Rare autoinflammatory and miscellaneous diseases


• 19: Hereditary disorders of connective tissue (HDCT)


• 20: Common upper limb musculoskeletal lesions


• 21: Spinal disorders and back pain


• 22: Chronic pain syndromes


• Medicine management and emergencies


• 23: Drugs used in rheumatology practice


• 24: Glucocorticoid injection therapy


• 25: Rheumatological emergencies

Dr Clunie is consultant rheumatologist and metabolic bone physician at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge (since 2012) and trustee of the British Society of Rheumatology. He was Rheumatologist in Ipswich, where he set up the first English Fracture Liaison Service in Ipswich. The service has become a model for FLSs in many places worldwide. Dr Clunie's subspecialty interests are rare bone diseases and Spondyloarthritis.
Dr Wilkinson is the George Koukis Lead for the paediatric rheumatology and paediatric chronic pain services at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, which he set up in 2014 to serve South London and South East Coastal Region of England. Prior to this he set up similar tertiary services for Thames Valley when he joined the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford in 2005 bringing his experience from working in Vancouver, Sydney and several centres across the UK. He continues to take many lead roles across national societies and charities in these areas of medicine, with a particular interest in adolescent and young adult care, chronic pain and paediatric sports and exercise medicine.
Dr Nikiphorou is a consultant rheumatologist at the Whittington Hospital in London and a clinical academic at the Academic Rheumatology department of King's College London. Her clinical and research interests focus on inflammatory arthritis, multimorbidity and patient reported outcomes. Dr Nikiphorou has a number of national and international roles and responsibilities, including being a member of the British Society of Rheumatology Heberden Committee and the Chair of the largest network of young rheumatologists in Europe (EMEUNET).
Dr Jadon is a consultant rheumatologist, Director of the Rheumatology Research Unit, and lead for psoriatic arthritis (PsA) at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. Having grown up in Cardiff, he graduated from the University of Wales College of Medicine in 2003, and then undertook clinical training in rheumatology and general internal medicine in Bath and Bristol between 2007 - 2015. He completed his PhD thesis on 'biomarkers of psoriatic arthritis phenotypes at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (Bath, UK) in 2015.