A Case of Coexisting Behcet`s Disease and Ankylosing Spondylitis
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A Case of Coexisting Behcet’s Disease and Ankylosing Spondylitis
Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic inflammatory condition involving several organs, such as skin, mucous membrane, eye, joint, intestine, lung and central nervous system. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a prototype of seronegative spondyloarthropathy, and a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder of the axial skeleton, mainly affecting the sacroiliac joint and spine. In the latter, systemic compl...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1226-3303,2005-6648
DOI: 10.3904/kjim.2000.15.1.93