TY - JOUR
T1 - Tests for Syphilis in Patients with SLE
AU - Shoenfeld, Y.
AU - Pick, A. I.
AU - Danziger, Y.
PY - 1977/2/24
Y1 - 1977/2/24
N2 - To the Editor: We should like to comment on the statement in a recent CPC (N Engl J Med 295:156, 1976) that “More extensive documentation and long-term follow-up study, however, suggest that systemic lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are both associated with a biologic false-positive test for syphilis.” We have recently evaluated a number of clinical, general laboratory and immunologic tests in 40 patients with SLE diagnosed on the basis of the criteria of the American Rheumatism Association (Cohen AF, Keynold WF: Preliminary criteria for the classification of SLE. Bull Rheum Dis 21:643–648, 1971) and anti-(n)-DNA titers. We found a. . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
AB - To the Editor: We should like to comment on the statement in a recent CPC (N Engl J Med 295:156, 1976) that “More extensive documentation and long-term follow-up study, however, suggest that systemic lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are both associated with a biologic false-positive test for syphilis.” We have recently evaluated a number of clinical, general laboratory and immunologic tests in 40 patients with SLE diagnosed on the basis of the criteria of the American Rheumatism Association (Cohen AF, Keynold WF: Preliminary criteria for the classification of SLE. Bull Rheum Dis 21:643–648, 1971) and anti-(n)-DNA titers. We found a. . . No extract is available for articles shorter than 400 words.
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U2 - 10.1056/NEJM197702242960813
DO - 10.1056/NEJM197702242960813
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AN - SCOPUS:0017782075
SN - 0028-4793
VL - 296
SP - 451
JO - New England Journal of Medicine
JF - New England Journal of Medicine
IS - 8
ER -
