In vivo antinuclear antibody of the skin: diagnostic significance and association with selective antinuclear antibodies.
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In vivo antinuclear antibody of the skin: diagnostic significance and association with selective antinuclear antibodies.
Immunofluorescence microscopy of the skin has disclosed antibodies bound to epidermal cell nuclei in several connective tissue disorders. To establish the diagnostic potential of this phenomenon the results of immunofluorescence microscopy of biopsy specimens from 1651 subjects with various diseases and from 315 patients with systemic connective tissue disorders and related diseases were review...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.49.3.163