Harter F
MMW Munch Med Wochenschr. 1977 Jun 3;119(22):767-72.
The methods for laboratory diagnosis of rheumatic diseases are subdivided into 10 groups according to their informative value. The following aspects are taken into consideration: general diagnosis of inflammation, infective processes with hemolytic streptococci and staphylococci, streptococcal agglutinations, rheumatoid factor tests in the strictest sense, detection of autoantibodies, the HLA-system, investigations in metabolic diseases and generalized skeletal diseases, bacteriological and serological investigations in joint infections and tests in symptomatic diseases of joints and muscles. In the evaluation of the individual methods and the discussion of their application in various types of disease, the following provisional diagnoses are gone into: streptococcal rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, monarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter's syndrome and psoriatic arthritis, myositis and polymyositis.
根据其信息价值，风湿性疾病的实验室诊断方法可细分为10组。考虑以下几个方面：炎症的一般诊断、溶血性链球菌和葡萄球菌的感染过程、链球菌凝集反应、最严格意义上的类风湿因子检测、自身抗体检测、HLA系统、代谢性疾病和全身性骨骼疾病的检查、关节感染的细菌学和血清学检查以及关节和肌肉症状性疾病的检测。在评估个别方法及其在各种疾病类型中的应用讨论中，涉及以下初步诊断：链球菌性风湿症、类风湿性关节炎、单关节炎、强直性脊柱炎、赖特综合征和银屑病关节炎、肌炎和多发性肌炎。
