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Presentation Chronicles Pathway to Erdheim-Chester Diagnosis


 

At the American College of Rheumatology’s Clinicopathologic Conference, a team of four physicians from the National Institutes of Health and George Washington University presented a case study of a rare inflammatory disease and the series of imaging and pathology tests they conducted to arrive at the diagnosis of Erdheim-Chester disease.

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