Specificity of antinuclear antibodies in scleroderma-like chronic graft-versus-host disease: Clinical correlation and histocompatibility locus antigen association

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 848-854

  Bell, S A ^a   Faust, H ^a   Mittermuller J ^b   Kolb, H J ^a   Meurer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HLA A1 ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERODERMA;

EID: 0029926977     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1996.tb06314.x     Document Type: Article

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