Clinical heterogeneity and outcomes of antisynthetase syndrome

Current Rheumatology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Hervier, Baptiste ^a   Benveniste, Olivier ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Anti Jo1; Antisynthetase; Clinical heterogeneity; Inflammatory myopathy; Interstitial lung disease; Myositis; Myositisspecific antibodies

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

BLOOD; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MYOSITIS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUTOANTIBODIES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MYOSITIS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84879056224     PISSN: 15233774     EISSN: 15346307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11926-013-0349-8     Document Type: Article

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