Mixed connective tissue disease: Still crazy after all these years

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 421-436

  Swanton, Josephine ^a   Isenberg, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CORTICOSTEROID; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ARTHRITIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; MYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCLERODERMA; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

AUTOANTIBODIES; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MIXED CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN, U1 SMALL NUCLEAR; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 23444434091     PISSN: 0889857X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2005.04.009     Document Type: Review

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