The "primary" antiphospholipid syndrome: Major clinical and serological features

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 366-374

  Asherson, Ronald A ^a   Khamashta, Munther A ^a   Ordi Ros, Jose ^c   Derksen, Ronald H W M ^b   Machin, Samuel J ^d   Barquinero, Jorge ^c   Outt, Harry H ^b   Nigel Harris, E ^e   Vilardell Torres, Miguel ^c   Hughes, Graham R V ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGE; AUTOIMMUNITY; DIAGNOSIS; FATALITY; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BLOOD COAGULATION FACTORS; CARDIOLIPINS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUPUS COAGULATION INHIBITOR; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 0024428788     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-198911000-00004     Document Type: Article

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