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Diagnostic use of B-cell alloantigen D8/17 in rheumatic chorea
B M Feldman1, J B Zabriskie, E D Silverman
1Department of Paediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Journal of Pediatrics
|July 1, 1993
Abstract:
Two unrelated patients with a family history of rheumatic fever had isolated, acquired chorea. Both index cases, as well as affected family members, had increased expression of the rheumatic B-cell alloantigen D8/17. This test may help differentiate Sydenham chorea from lupus chorea.