Clinical features and evolution of antinuclear antibody positive individuals in a rheumatology outpatient clinic

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 886-891

  Vlachoyiannopoulos, Panayiotis G ^a   Tzavara, Vasiliki ^a   Dafni, Urania ^a   Spanos, Evangelos ^a   Moutsopoulos, Haralampos M ^b  

^a Biomedicine SA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ana positive individuals; Autoantibodies; Evolution; Systemic lupus erythematosus

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; DNA ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATOLOGY;

EID: 0031920054     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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