The spectrum of type I cryoglobulinemia vasculitis: new insights based on 64 cases

Benjamin Terrier1, Alexandre Karras, Jean-Emmanuel Kahn

  • 1From the Department of Internal Medicine (BT, DS, P. Cacoub), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpetrière, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6, Paris; Department of Nephrology (AK), Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris; Department of Internal Medicine (J-EK), Hôpital Foch, Suresnes; Department of Internal Medicine (GG), CHU, Clermont-Ferrand; Department of Internal Medicine (IM), CHU, Rouen; Department of Internal Medicine, (LB) CHU, Marseille; Department of Nephrology (AL), CHU, Bordeaux; Department of Internal Medicine (ED), CHU, Tours; Department of Hematology (OH), Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris; Department of Internal Medicine (LS-M), CHU, Brest; Department of Internal Medicine (P. Cathébras), CHU, Saint-Etienne; Department of Hematology (VL) and Department of Neurology (J-ML), Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpetrière, Paris; Department of Dermatology (PM), CHRU, Lille; Department of Rheumatology (XM), Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre; and Department of Dermatology (PS) and Department of Nephrology (EP), Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France.

Medicine
|February 23, 2013
PubMed

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