Disseminated mycobacterial infection mimicking erythema nodosum in a patient with Crohn’s Disease on infliximab therapy
✍ Scribed by Emily L Cooper; David Patterson; Robert Rakita
- Book ID
- 119393491
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 27 KB
- Volume
- 97
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9270
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