The concurrence of rheumatoid arthritis and limited systemic sclerosis: Clinical and serologic characteristics of an overlap syndrome

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1938-1945

  Zimmermann, Christof ^a   Steiner, Günter ^b   Skriner, Karl ^b   Hassfeld, Wolfgang ^a   Petera, Peter ^a   Smolen, Josef S ^b,c  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL LINZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE;

ADULT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CALCINOSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TELANGIECTASIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUTOANTIGENS; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CREST SYNDROME; CROSS REACTIONS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITOPE MAPPING; HELA CELLS; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN GROUP A-B; HETEROGENEOUS-NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 0031765132     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199811)41:11<1938::AID-ART7>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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