Seronegative chronic polyarthritis: clinical and serological correlates.
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Seronegative chronic polyarthritis: clinical and serological correlates.
Twenty-seven patients with chronic, active, seronegative polyarthritis were assessed clinically and serologically by accepted criteria for evidence of connective tissue diseases. The patients were divided into 2 groups, 13 positive for fluorescent antinuclear antibody (FANA) and 14 that were negative. All but 1 patient fulfilled the clinical criteria for the diagnosis of definite rheumatoid art...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1980
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.39.6.550