Late-onset Behçet's disease does not correlate with indolent clinical course: Report of seven Taiwanese patients

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 596-600

  Tsai, J ^a   Chen, G S ^a,b   Lu, Y W ^c   Wu, C S ^c   Lan, C C E ^a,b,c  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Beh et's disease; Late onset; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; HLA B51 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOTREXATE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE;

ACUTE PYELONEPHRITIS; ADULT; APHTHOUS ULCER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TAIWAN; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; UVEITIS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BEHCET SYNDROME; COLCHICINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEITIS;

EID: 42149104369     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2007.02556.x     Document Type: Article

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