Clinical Continuum of Systemic Lupus in Saudi Arabia
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چکیده
Saudi Arabia is a country in which people of different ethnic origin as well as expatriates live together. There are a few reports describing the clinical and laboratory features of SLE from different regions of the Kingdom [2] including our retrospective study from Eastern Saudi Arabia [2]. The purpose of this short review is to compare the clinical spectrum of adult systemic lupus in different regions of Saudi Arabia.
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