Pregnancy-related polymyositis and massive perivillous fibrin deposition in the placenta: Are they pathogenetically related?

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 154-156

  Hung, Noelyn Anne ^a   Jackson, Christopher ^b   Nicholson, Martha ^b   Highton, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b DUNEDIN HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; FIBRIN DEPOSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLACENTA; POLYMYOSITIS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STILLBIRTH;

ADULT; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; CHORIONIC VILLI; FEMALE; FIBRIN; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYMYOSITIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; STILLBIRTH; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 32544440034     PISSN: 21514658     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.21710     Document Type: Article

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