Successful treatment with corticosteroid in a case of Behçet's syndrome with multiple esophageal ulcerations

Internal Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 696-699

  Yasuo, Masanori ^a   Miyabayashi, Hideharu ^a   Okano, Tomomi ^a   Aoki, Hajime ^a   Ichikawa, Kazuo ^a   Hirose, Yoshiki ^a  

^a Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Esophageal ulcers; Intestinal Beh et's syndrome; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PAIN; PHARYNGITIS; RECTUM INJURY; STERNUM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER HEALING;

EID: 0041973423     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.42.696     Document Type: Article

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