Familial Mediterranean fever

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Volumn 351, Issue 9103, 1998, Pages 659-664

  Ben Chetrit, Eldad ^a   Levy, Micha ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

CLINICAL FEATURE; FAMILIAL MEDITERRANEAN FEVER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032574208     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)09408-7     Document Type: Review

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