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Successful treatment of a patient with takayasu arteritis using a humanized anti–interleukin-6 receptor antibody

✍ Scribed by Norihiro Nishimoto; Hideko Nakahara; Naoko Yoshio-Hoshino; Toru Mima

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
77 KB
Volume
58
Category
Article
ISSN
0004-3591

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