ix, 346 pages : illustrations )some color( ; 28 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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Comprises the rheumatology and immunology chapters from Harrison's principles of internal medicine. 19th edition. 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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editor, Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Chief, Laboratory of Immunoregulation; Director, National Insitute of Allergy and Infections Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland ; associate editor, Carol A. Langford, MD, MHS, Harold C. Schott Chair, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Vasculitis Care and research, Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
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Fourth edition
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction to the immune system / Barton F. Haynes, Kelly A. Soderberg, Anthony S. Fauci -- The major histocompatibility complex / Gerald T. Nepom -- Autoimmunity and autoimmune diseases / Betty Diamond, Peter E. Lipsky -- Systemic lupus erythematosus / Bevra Hannahs Hahn -- Antiphospholipid syndrome / Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos, Panayiotis G. Vlachoyiannopoulos -- Rheumatoid arthritis / Ankoor Shah, E. William St. Clair -- Acute rheumatic fever / Jonathan R. Carapetis -- Systemic sclerosis )scleroderma( and related disorders / John Varga -- Sjogren's syndrome / Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos, Athanasios G. Tzioufas -- The spondyloarthritides / Joel D. Taurog, John D. Carter -- The vasculitis syndromes / Carol A. Langford, Anthony S. Fauci -- Behcet's syndrome / Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos -- Relapsing polychondritis / Carol A. Langford -- Sarcoidosis / Robert P. Baughman, Elyse E. Lower -- IgG4-related disease / John H. Stone -- Familial mediterranean fever and other hereditary autoinflammatory diseases / Daniel L. Kastner -- Polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and inclusion body myositis / Marinos C. Dalakas -- Approach to articular and musculoskeletal disorders / John J. Cush -- Osteoarthritis / David T. Felson -- Gout and other crystal-associated arthropathies / H. Ralph Schumacher, Lan X. Chen -- Infectious arthritis / Lawrence C. Madoff -- Fibromyalgia / Leslie J. Crofford -- Arthritis associated with systemic disease, and other arthritides / Carol A. Langford, Brian F. Mandell -- Periarticular disorders of the extremities / Carol A. Langford