Environmental factors may modulate antiphospholipid antibody production in family members of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
✍ Scribed by Alain Saraux; Jean Jouquan; Paul Le Goff; Pierre Youinou; Yair Levy; Jean-Charles Piette; Loïc Guillevin; Gilbert Semana; Denise Salmon; Jean-Paul Viard; Jean-François Bach; Yehuda Shoenfeld
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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