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Placebo responses in ankylosing spondylitis patients worldwide: variations and possible explanations
James Cheng-Chung Wei1,2, Li-Jun Zhang3, Jin-Xian Huang3
1Department of Rheumatology, BenQ Medical Center, the Affiliated BenQ Hospital of Nanjing Medical University , China.
Expert Review of Clinical Immunology
|March 28, 2020
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