Young male patient diagnosed with cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa successfully treated with etanercept

Lara Valor1, Indalecio Monteagudo, Inmaculada de la Torre

  • 1Rheumatology Department, Gregorio Marañón University, General Hospital , Madrid , Spain.

Modern Rheumatology
|July 2, 2014
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