Early undifferentiated connective tissue disease (CTD). VI. An inception cohort after 10 years: disease remissions and changes in diagnoses in well established and undifferentiated CTD.

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Published in J Rheumatol on April 01, 1999

Authors

H J Williams1, G S Alarcon, R Joks, V D Steen, K Bulpitt, D O Clegg, C M Ziminski, M E Luggen, E W St Clair, R F Willkens, C Yarboro, J G Morgan, M J Egger, J R Ward

Author Affiliations

1: Cooperative Systemic Studies of the Rheumatic Diseases, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, USA.

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