Generalized sweet syndrome lesions associated with behet disease: A true association or simply co-morbidity?

American Journal of Clinical Dermatology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 331-335

  Karadoğan, Serap Köran ^a,c   Başkan, Emel Bülbül ^b   Alkan, Gülçin ^b   Saricaoglu, Hayriye ^b   Tunali, Şükran ^b  

^a Esref Pasa Hospital   (Turkey)

^b ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOBETASOL; COLCHICINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE FEBRILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATOSIS; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GENITAL ULCER; HEMATOCRIT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EXAMINATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; SWEET SYNDROME;

EID: 68949098304     PISSN: 11750561     EISSN: 11791888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11310790-000000000-00000     Document Type: Article

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