Latest advances in connective tissue disorders
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Latest advances in connective tissue disorders.
The connective tissue disorders comprise a number of related conditions that include systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and the antiphospholipid (Hughes) syndrome, scleroderma, myositis and Sjögren's syndrome. They are characterized by autoantibody production and other immune-mediated dysfunction. There are common clinical and serological features with some patients having multiple overlapping ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1759-720X,1759-7218
DOI: 10.1177/1759720x13480280