[Diagnostic evaluation of fever among patients with systemic autoinmune disease. Infection versus inflammatory

J Font Franco1, R Cervera Segura

  • 1Unidad de Enfermedades Autoinmunes Sistémicas, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain. font@medicine.ub.es

Revista Clinica Espanola
|January 12, 2002
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