Novel anti-silicone surface-associated antigen antibodies (anti-SSAA(x)) may help differentiate symptomatic patients with silicone breast implants from patients with classical rheumatological disease

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 210, Issue , 1996, Pages 327-336

  Kossovsky, N ^a   Conway, D ^b   Kossowsky, R ^c   Petrovich, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Forbes Med Tech Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ADULT; BREAST PROSTHESIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SILICONE PROSTHESIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 0030033227     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-85226-8_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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