Testing for antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs) in patients with systemic vasculitides and other diseases
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Pavel Novikov1, Ilya Smitienko2, Nikolay Bulanov1
1Clinic of Nephrology, Internal and Occupational Diseases, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russia.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
|December 25, 2016
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