Hereditary complement deficiency and lupus: Report of four Tunisian cases

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1108, Issue , 2007, Pages 197-202

  Kallel Sellami, Maryam ^a   Baili Klila, Lilia ^a   Zerzeri, Yousr ^a   Laadhar, Lilia ^a   Blouin, Jacques ^b   Abdelmalek, Rim ^a   Fremeaux Bacchi, Véronique ^b   Zitouni, Mondher ^a   Makni, Sondes ^a  

^a LA RABTA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Antinuclear antibodies; Complement; Hereditary deficiency; Lupus

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C2; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENICITY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLEMENT DEFICIENCY; COMPLEMENT HEMOLYSIS TEST; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYPOCOMPLEMENTEMIA; INHERITANCE; LABORATORY TEST; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

DISCOIDAE;

EID: 34948828021     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1422.022     Document Type: Conference Paper

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