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Adult seronegative arthritis with antinuclear antibodies: a distinct group of patients with a different immunogenetic pattern from seropositive rheumatoid arthritis and a good outcome.
Revue du rhumatisme (English ed.) - 1 May 1996
Saudan-Kister A, Gabay C, Tiercy J M, Mermillod B, Guerne P A, Vischer T L
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether patients with rheumatoid factor (RF)-negative, antinuclear antibody (ANA)-positive oligo/polyarthritis are clinically and immunogenetically distinct from RF-positive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and whether this subset of patients is the adult counterpart of early-onset pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis (EOPA JCA), we retrospectively studied 20 adult patients with RF-negative,...
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