Polyarthritis in Behcet's Multiple Symptom Complex
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Polyarthritis in Behcet's multiple symptom complex.
Behqet's syndrome (pronunciation BWh-chett) is usually regarded as a rare condition which lies in the fields of only three specialties-dermatology, ophthalmology, and gynaecology. The convenient label, triple symptom complex, encourages this, the picture entertained being dominated by the three arresting features-recurrent oral and genital ulceration and relapsing iritis. Our debt to this type ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.22.1.26