Therapeutic effect of tocilizumab on two patients with polymyositis.
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Tomonari Shigemura, Kazunaga Agematsu, Takashi Yamazaki, Kazuo Sakashita, Yoshiko Nakayama, Yumiko Higuchi, Kazuyuki Matsuda and Kenichi Koike Department of Pediatrics, Department of Infection and Host Defense and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Nagano, Japan Accepted 7 March 2011 Correspondence to: Tomonari Shigemura, Department of Pediatrics, Shinshu University School of Medicine, 3-1-1Asahi, Matsumoto 390-8621 Japan. E-mail: [email protected]
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Rheumatology
دوره 50 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011