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  • Title: Clinical application of the HLA-B27 test in rheumatic diseases. A current perspective.
    Author: Khan MA.
    Journal: Arch Intern Med; 1980 Feb; 140(2):177-80. PubMed ID: 6986127.
    Abstract:
    Testing for the histocompatibility antigen HLA-B27 has been suggested as a valuable diagnostic aid in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and associated spondyloarthropathies, and B27 typing is becoming more readily available commercially at a number of clinical pathology laboratories. A current evaluation of B27 typing as a diagnostic test is presented, together with some guidelines for the clinical application of this test in the diagnosis of certain rheumatic diseases.
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