Tumor necrosis factor α antagonist use and cancer in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
✍ Scribed by Soko Setoguchi; Daniel H. Solomon; Michael E. Weinblatt; Jeffrey N. Katz; Jerry Avorn; Robert J. Glynn; E. Francis Cook; Greg Carney; Sebastian Schneeweiss
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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