Lupus enteritis: from clinical findings to therapeutic management
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Lupus enteritis: from clinical findings to therapeutic management
Lupus enteritis is a rare and poorly understood cause of abdominal pain in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In this study, we report a series of 7 new patients with this rare condition who were referred to French tertiary care centers and perform a systematic literature review of SLE cases fulfilling the revised ACR criteria, with evidence for small bowel involvement, excluding...
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عنوان ژورنال: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1750-1172
DOI: 10.1186/1750-1172-8-67