Diagnosis
There are many characteristic features of Behçet’s disease. Since no specific diagnostic laboratory test exists, difficulties arise in making a proper diagnosis. Hence, diagnosis relies mainly on observation and identification of typical clinical manifest
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Beh~et's
Disease
DONGSIK BANG
EUN-SO LEE
SEONGHYANG SOHN
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Sungnack Lee Dongsik Bang Seonghyang Sohn
Be
~et's
Eun -So Lee
Disease
AGuide to its Clinical Understanding Textbook and Atlas
With 147 Figures and 121 Tables
Springer
SUNGNACK LEE, Dr. med. habil., M.D., Department of Dermatology, Ajou University School of Medicine 5 Wonchon-Dong, Paldal-Gu Suwon 442-721, Korea DONGSIK BANG, M.D. Department of Dermatology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, c.P.O. Box 8044 Seoul, Korea EUN -So LEE, M.D. Department of Dermatology, Ajou University School of Medicine 5 Wonchon-Dong, Paldal-Gu Suwon 442-721, Korea SEONGHYANG SOHN, Ph.D. Laboratory of Cell Biology, Ajou University Institute for Medical Sciences 5 Wonchon-Dong, Paldal-Gu Suwon 442-721, Korea
Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for. disease: textbook and atlas / [edited by] Sungnack Lee ... let al.]. p.; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beh~et's
ISBN 978-3-642-63094-1
ISBN 978-3-642-56455-0 (eBook)
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-56455-0
1. Beh~et's disease. 2. Beh~et's disease-Atlases. I. Lee, Sungnack, 1938 [DNLM: 1. Beh~et's Syndromediagnosis-Atlases. 2. Beh~et's Syndrome-therapy-Atlases. WW 17 B419 2000] RCI22.B4.B4252000 616-9-dc21 00-030057
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Preface
A Turkish dermatologist named Hulusi Beh~et defined a syndrome, the major symptoms of which comprise oral ulcers, genital ulcers, eye lesions, and skin lesions, as a specific disease in 1937, and the disease was named Beh~et's disease after him. Since then, there have been more than 4500 reports presented worldwide on this disease showing that Beh~et's disease is no longer rare. Because Beh~et's disease is clinically dynamic and its clini
