BEHCET'S DISEASE; A REPORT OF 28 CASES
| Autor: | Jubran G. Mamo, Aram Baghdassarian |
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| Rok vydání: | 1964 |
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Eye Manifestations
medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Tuberculosis Adolescent Epidemiology MEDLINE Behcet's disease Disease Therapeutics Thrombophlebitis Neurologic Manifestations medicine Pathology Humans Israel Lebanon Child Jordan Syria business.industry Behcet Syndrome medicine.disease Prognosis Ophthalmology Syphilis business Rheumatism |
| Zdroj: | Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960). 71 |
| ISSN: | 0003-9950 |
| Popis: | The earliest description of what today is recognized as Behcet's disease is by Hippocrates in his Third Book of Endemic Diseases. 1 Jacobini in 1894 and many others later described the manifestations of this disease, but considered them as complications of certain well-known diseases such as tuberculosis, syphilis, and rheumatism. 2 In 1930 Adamentiades presented to the Medical Society of Athens the first recorded case of this condition. 3 Whitwell 4 described the condition in 1934; he thought it was common but did not know its cause. In 1937, Halusi Behcet 5 (pronounced Beh-chet), Professor of Dermatology in Istanbul, drew the various manifestations of this condition together and suggested a new clinical entity, elevating the condition into a syndrome. Since then numerous reports about this condition have appeared, each usually limited to one or two cases. Sezer 6 in 1956 reported 20 cases, and Berlin 7 in 1960 reported ten. The |
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