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Mediterr J Rheumatol 2017;28(3):153-6
Oxygen-dependent patient with antisynthetase syndrome associated interstitial lung disease responds promptly to rituximab with rapid pulmonary function improvement
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Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USA

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