Pulmonary artery aneurysm in Behcet's disease: A case report

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 157-159

  Kasikcioglu, Erdem ^a,b   Akhan, Hulya ^a   Cuhadaroglu, Caglar ^a   Erkan, Feyza ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Behcet's disease; Tomography

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANKLE EDEMA; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; HEMOPTYSIS; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANEURYSM; BEHCET SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 3042511576     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-003-0742-8     Document Type: Article

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