Antinuclear antibody-negative systemic lupus erythematosus - how common?
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Antinuclear antibody-negative systemic lupus erythematosus - how common?
A review of five years' DNA-binding antibody results in a routine service laboratory revealed 38 patients who had high DNA-binding capacity (DNA-bc) but no antinuclear antibodies (ANA). On retrospective case note analysis, 22 patients (58%) were thought to have systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), although only six (16%) fulfilled the preliminary classification criteria of the American Rheumatis...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.36.9.1084-b