Immunogenetic similarities between patients with Felty's syndrome and those with clonal expansions of large granular lymphocytes in rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 624-626

  Starkebaum, Gordon ^a,g   Loughran Jr , Thomas P ^f   Gaur, Lakshmi K ^e   Davis, Paul ^d   Nepom, Barbara S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Sound Blood Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA DR4 ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FELTY SYNDROME; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGENETICS; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CLONE CELLS; COHORT STUDIES; FELTY'S SYNDROME; GENOTYPE; HLA-DR4 ANTIGEN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGENETICS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030905212     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780400406     Document Type: Article

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