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Primary Biliary Cirrhosis Associated with Systemic Sclerosis: Diagnostic and Clinical Challenges

Patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) often have concurrent limited systemic sclerosis (SSc). Conversely, up to one-fourth of SSc patients are positive for PBC-specific antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA). The mechanisms responsible for the co-occurrence of these diseases are largely unknown....

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Autores principales: Rigamonti, Cristina, Bogdanos, Dimitrios P., Mytilinaiou, Maria G., Smyk, Daniel S., Rigopoulou, Eirini I., Burroughs, Andrew K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3236477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22187566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/976427