Clinical and histopathological features of myopathies in Japanese patients with anti-SRP autoantibodies
✍ Scribed by Tetsuya Takada; Michito Hirakata; Akira Suwa; Yuko Kaneko; Masataka Kuwana; Tadayuki Ishihara; Yasuo Ikeda
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1439-7595
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