Ankylosing Spondylitis with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Subcutaneous Nodules
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1Department of Internal Medicine 3, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany; 2Medical Department I, Rheumatology, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany. Georg Schett, MD Joachim Sieper, MD Please address correspondence to: Georg Schett, MD, Department of Internal Medicine III and Institute for Clinical Immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Krankenhausstrasse 12,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arthritis & Rheumatism
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0004-3591,1529-0131
DOI: 10.1002/art.1780200727