Why is the ANA result positive?

Bulletin on the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-4

  Illei, Gabor G ^a   Klippel, John H ^a  

^a Natl Institutes Arthr M   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, ANTINUCLEAR; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032982147     PISSN: 00075248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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