Coexistence of Behçet's disease and autoimmune disease: Clinical features of 11 cases

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 614-616

  Cho, Sung Bin ^a   Chun, Eun Young ^a   Bang, Dongsik ^a   Lee, Kwang Hoon ^a   Lee, Eun So ^b   Lee, Sungnack ^b  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; Beh et's disease

Indexed keywords

ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MICROSOME ANTIBODY; RO ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BEHCET DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MALE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 23944488465     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2005.tb00809.x     Document Type: Letter

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