Rheumatoid arthritis: Correlation between rheumatoid factor levels and CA-125 tumour marker elevation [1]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 980-

  Tsavaris, Nicolas ^a   Mavragani, Clio P ^a   Dimitrios, Pikazis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; CA 19-9 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FC FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CA-125 ANTIGEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC FACTORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RHEUMATOID FACTOR; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34347245941     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2007.070052     Document Type: Letter

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