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Clinical utility of diagnostic tests for rheumatoid factor

E Ulvestad1, A Kanestrøm, T M Madland

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Gade Institute, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway. elling.ulvestad@haukeland.no

Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
|April 28, 2001
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