Anticollagen antibodies in myasthenia gravis
de Oliveira, R.M.; Scaff, M.; Cossermelli, W.; de Assis, J.L.; Bueno, C.; dos Reis, M.; Marchiori, P.E.
Revista do Hospital das Clinicas 43(4): 186-187
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-8781 PMID: 3249889 Document Number: 319054
The presence of antibodies of collagen II fibrils by hemagglutination in 20 to 60 patients with myasthenia gravis are reported. The importance of collagen antibody in MG is not yet determined, and the immunologic epiphenomenon must be considered.