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Case Report

A case of planned pregnancy with an interruption in infliximab administration in a 27-year-old female patient with rheumatoid-factor-positive polyarthritis juvenile idiopathic arthritis which improved after restarting infliximab and methotrexate

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Pages 189-192 | Received 13 Aug 2007, Accepted 24 Oct 2007, Published online: 02 Jan 2014

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