Overlap syndromes: Mixed Connective Tissue Disease and Sjögren's Syndrome

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 717-744

  Hoffman, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

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