Hippocratic fingers in Behçet's disease

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 863, 1997, Pages 575-576

  Benekli, Mustafa ^a,b   Güllü, Ibrahim Halil ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beh et's disease; Digital clubbing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; PATHOLOGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLUBBING FINGERS;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOARTHROPATHY, SECONDARY HYPERTROPHIC;

COLCHICINE; PREDNISOLONE;

EID: 0030613799     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.73.863.575     Document Type: Article

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