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Successful management and treatment of SLE-associated hypophysitis

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Funding

This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong (2015A030313332 and 2017A030310456), the Medical Scientific Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (A2018271 and A2019221), the Science Research and Innovation Foundation of Jinan University (21617493 and 21617481), and the Science Research and Cultivate Foundation from the First Clinical Medical College of Jinan University (2016320, 2017105, and 2018108).

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  1. Lihua Zhu and Zhiqin Wang contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China

    Lihua Zhu, Zhiqin Wang & Yi Zhou

  2. Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Guangdong Women And Children Hospital, Guangzhou, 510632, China

    Zhiqin Wang

  3. Department of Endocrinology, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China

    Xiaohua Lu

  4. Department of Radiology, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China

    Zeyu Xiao

  5. Department of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632, China

    Liang Wang

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Zhu, L., Wang, Z., Lu, X. et al. Successful management and treatment of SLE-associated hypophysitis. Immunol Res 68, 107–109 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12026-020-09118-8

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