Clinical features and perforin a91v gene analysis in 31 patients with macrophage activation syndrome and systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis in China

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1238-

  Huasong, Zeng ^a   Ping, Wei ^b   Xiangyuan, Chen ^b   Yandan, Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^b Guangzhou Medical College's ^*  (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; FIBRINOGEN; PERFORIN;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROPHAGOCYTOSIS; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOTYPE; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFECTION; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LETTER; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION SYNDROME; PANCYTOPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTEMIC JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE; CHINA; HUMANS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION SYNDROME; PERFORIN;

EID: 84879914829     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.121040     Document Type: Letter

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