Rembrandt's Maria Bockenolle has a butterfly rash and digital deformities: Overlapping syndrome of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 906-909

  Hayakawa, Satoshi ^a   Komine Aizawa, Shihoko ^a   Osaka, Shunzo ^a   Iida, Toshihiro ^b   Hayakawa, Junko ^c   Nishinarita, Susumu ^c   Nemoto, Norimichi ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Akiru Municipal General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FINGER MALFORMATION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MEDICINE IN ART; NETHERLANDS; PAINTINGS; PORTRAITS; SYNDROME;

EID: 33846352213     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.09.055     Document Type: Article

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