Usefulness of Serum Lysozyme Measurement in Diagnosis and Evaluation of Sarcoidosis

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 289, Issue 20, 1973, Pages 1074-1076

  Pascual, Rafael S ^a   Gee, J Bernard L ^a   Finch, Stuart C ^a  

^a Yale University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; LYSOZYME;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; REMISSION; SARCOIDOSIS; SPLEEN; SPLEEN DISEASE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ENZYME TESTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MURAMIDASE; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SARCOIDOSIS; SPLEEN; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 0015926353     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM197311152892007     Document Type: Article

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