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Correlation between severity of rheumatoid arthritis and manner and extent of cervical lesion pp. 301 - 305
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A case of acquired hemophilia caused by factor VIII inhibitor with rheumatoid arthritis, successfully treated with immunosuppressive treatment and recombinant activated factor VII pp. 320 - 322
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A case of central nervous system lupus in succession to lupus peritonitis: a difficulty in the differential diagnosis between lupus psychosis and steroid-induced psychosis pp. 323 - 326
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Sweet’s syndrome associated with propylthiouracil-induced antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody pp. 327 - 330
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