Anti-TNF treatment in secondary amyloidosis [9]

Rheumatology

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1425-1426

  Ortiz Santamaria, V ^a   Valls Roc, M ^a   Sanmarti M ^a   Olive A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPONDYLITIS, ANKYLOSING;

EID: 0242524604     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keg361     Document Type: Letter

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