Diagnostic and prognostic characteristics of the enzyme linked immunosorbent rheumatoid factor assays in rheumatoid arthritis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 157-161

  Visser, Hendrik ^a   Gelinck, Luc B S ^a   Kampfraath, Anna H ^a   Breedveld, Ferdinand C ^a   Hazes, Johanna M W ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 0030004860     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.55.3.157     Document Type: Article

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