Rheumatoid arthritis and pregnancy: Where do we go from here?

Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 268, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 309-311

  Chakravarty, E F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; CLEFT LIP; CLEFT PALATE; DENMARK; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LIMB REDUCTION DEFECT; MATERNAL DISEASE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 77956337411     PISSN: 09546820     EISSN: 13652796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2010.02250.x     Document Type: Editorial

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