Adult Onset Still's Disease and Autoinflammation

نویسندگان

  • Petros Efthimiou
  • L. Nandini Moorthy
  • Clio P. Mavragani
  • Dimitris Skokos
  • Bruno Fautrel
چکیده

1Rheumatology Division, Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center, 234 E. 149th st, New York, NY 10451, USA 2Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10021, USA 3Division of Pediatric Rheumatology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA 4Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, M. Asias 75, 11527 Athens, Greece 5 Immunity & Inflammation Department, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc, 777 Old Saw Mill River Road Tarrytown, NY 10591, USA 6Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris 6), Service de Rhumatologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, 83 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France

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دوره 2012  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2012