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The paper is concerned with the existence of solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems for systems of equations of the form \[ (\varphi(u'))' = f(t,u,u'), \quad l(u,u') = 0, \] where \(\varphi: \mathbb R^{N} \rightarrow \mathbb R^{N}\) is a monotone homeomorphism, \(f: [0,T]\times \mathbb R^{N} \times \mathbb R^{N} \rightarrow \mathbb R^{N}\) is a Carathéodory function and \(l(u,u') = 0\) denotes the Dirichlet, Neumann or periodic boundary conditions on \([0,T].\) Some important examples of nonlinear operators \((\varphi(u'))',\) which are shown in this paper, contain several vector versions of \(p\)-Laplacian operators. The general and abstract results generalize different well known continuation theorems and they may be viewed as an extension of coincidence degree to quasilinear problems.