Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science, Vol 5, Issue 5, 363-368
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Rheumatoid arthritis: an immune disease in search of an etiology
DL Weiss
The current knowledge of the immunologic and etiologic factors which play a role in rheumatoid arthritis is reviewed and extrapolated to the systemic effects of rheumatoid disease. The disease process is viewed as the incidental result of an atypical immuno-inflammatory mechanism initiated by an unidentified antigenic stimulus.