We reassessed renal biopsy specimens from 116 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and clinical manifestations of lupus nephritis to determine the contributions of the World Health Organization classification system, the activity and chronicity indexes of the National Institutes of Health scor
The value of the renal biopsy in lupus nephritis
β Scribed by Robert T. Mccluskey
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1982
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 939 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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