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Immunogenetic similarities between patients with Felty's syndrome and those with clonal expansions of large granular lymphocytes in rheumatoid arthritis.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Apr 1997
Starkebaum G, Loughran T P, Gaur L K, Davis P, Nepom B S
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Patients with chronic clonal proliferation of large granular lymphocytes (LGL leukemia) often have splenomegaly, neutropenia, and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), thereby resembling the manifestations observed in patients with Felty's syndrome. The present study sought to determine whether patients with these disorders represent 2 distinct subsets of neutropenic RA. METHODS: Prospective cohort study of...
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