Behcet's disease in Iran, analysis of 5,059 cases

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-14

  Shahram, Farhad ^a   Nadji, Abdolhadi ^a   Jamshidi, Ahmad Reza ^a   Chams, Hormoz ^b   Chams, Cheyda ^b   Shafaie, Nahid ^b   Akbarian, Mahmood ^a   Gharibdoost, Farhad ^a   Davatchi, Fereydoun ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Behcet's disease; Epidemiology; Iran; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

HLA B27 ANTIGEN; HLA B51 ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APHTHOUS STOMATITIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CALCULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDIDYMITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ETHNOLOGY; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENDER; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; IRAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TEST; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINALYSIS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VENEREAL DISEASE REACTION TEST;

EID: 3042651849     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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