Antibodies to thymic epithelial cells in myasthenia gravis
✍ Scribed by Didier Safar; Christine Aimé; Sylvia Cohen-Kaminsky; Sonia Berrih-Aknin
- Book ID
- 119107766
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 815 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-5728
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