Cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis caused by intravenous immunoglobulin treatment
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Cryoglobulinaemic vasculitis: new aspects.
Department of Rheumatology, University of Lübeck; Vasculitis Centre UKSH and Clinical Centre Bad Bramstedt, Lübeck, Germany. Please address correspondence to: Peter Lamprecht, MD, University of Lübeck, Department of Rheumatology, Vasculitis Centre UKSH and Clinical Centre Bad Bramstedt, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lübeck, Germany. E-mail: [email protected] Received on January 19, 2012; a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.2.403