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Off the Beaten Track: A Clinician’s View

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Hughes Syndrome

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The original title of this chapter was to have been “other organs”. I thought that this would be an ideal opportunity to track through the body, touching on selected, lesser known features of the syndrome. This approach will, I hope, allow me to focus on aspects of the syndrome which seem to me to be clinically relevant, but which, in some instances, have yet to be verified.

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  1. Lupus Research Unit, St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7EH, London, UK

    M. A. Khamashta MD, MRCP, PhD (Deputy Head) (Deputy Head)

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Hughes, G.R.V. (2000). Off the Beaten Track: A Clinician’s View. In: Khamashta, M.A. (eds) Hughes Syndrome. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3666-8_11

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