Sister cases of Behcet's disease and Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 433-434

  Horie, Yukihiro ^a   Namba, Kenichi ^a   Kitaichi, Nobuyoshi ^a   Ohno, Shigeaki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; INFLIXIMAB;

ADULT; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE REPORT; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GENOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CAPILLARY; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA VASCULITIS; SIBLING; VOGT KOYANAGI SYNDROME;

BEHCET SYNDROME; EYE DISEASES, HEREDITARY; FEMALE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL DISEASES; UVEOMENINGOENCEPHALITIC SYNDROME;

EID: 40549145545     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.120501     Document Type: Letter

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