Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) in temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica
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Polymyalgia rheumatica and temporal arteritis.
There is a fairly common form of rheumatism which afflicts the elderly with pains in the head, neck, back, and proximal parts of the limbs, with stiffness of movement and with constitutional illness. It is associated with a raised sedimentation rate (E.S.R.) and a mild hypergammaglobulinaemia, and women are affected more frequently than men. There is as yet no specific test for this condition, ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.59.10.775