Case Report
An Antinuclear Antibody-Negative Patient With Lupus Nephritis
Hyoun-Ah Kim, Jae-Wook Chung, Han-Jung Park, Dai-Yeol Joe, Hyun-Ee Yim, Hae-Sim Park, Chang-Hee Suh
Korean J Intern Med. 2009;24(1):76-79. Published online March 6, 2009
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a typical autoimmune disease that's characterized by various autoantibodies to nuclear and cytoplasmic antigens. The presence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in serum is generally considered a decisive diagnostic sign of SLE. However, a small subset of SLE pa..
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