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Capillaroscopic features of microangiopathy in rheumatoid arthritis patients with peripheral vascular syndrome

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  1. Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University – Plovdiv, 15A “Vasil Aprilov” Blvd, 4002, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

    Sevdalina Nikolova Lambova

  2. Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Ulf Müller-Ladner

  3. Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Campus Kerckhoff, Bad Nauheim, Germany

    Ulf Müller-Ladner

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Lambova, S.N., Müller-Ladner, U. Capillaroscopic features of microangiopathy in rheumatoid arthritis patients with peripheral vascular syndrome. Clin Rheumatol 38, 2339–2341 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-019-04561-x

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