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Incidence of Malignancies in a Cohort of Psoriatic Arthritis Patients Taking Traditional Disease Modifying Antirheumatic Drug and Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Therapy: An Observational Study

Luisa Costa, Francesco Caso, Antonio Del Puente, Matteo Nicola Dario Di Minno, Rosario Peluso and Raffaele Scarpa
The Journal of Rheumatology December 2016, 43 (12) 2149-2154; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.160542
Luisa Costa
From the Rheumatology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, and the Division of Cardiology, Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University Federico II, Naples, Italy.
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The Journal of Rheumatology Dec 2016, 43 (12) 2149-2154; DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.160542
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