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Prospective long-term follow-up of patients with localised Wegener's granulomatosis: does it occur as persistent disease stage?
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Nov 2010
Holle Julia U, Gross Wolfgang L, Holl-Ulrich Konstanze, Ambrosch Petra, Noelle Bernhard, Both Marcus, Csernok Elena, Moosig Frank, Schinke Susanne, Reinhold-Keller Eva
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OBJECTIVE: To identify patients with localised Wegener's granulomatosis (locWG) to assess whether it occurs as a long-term disease stage or phenotype and to characterise its outcome. METHODS: Patients in a 'localised stage' with histological criteria compatible with WG and a follow-up period of ≥1 year were included. They were prospectively followed at the Vasculitis Center Schleswig-Holstein from 1989 to 2009...
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