Behçet’s Disease A Guide to its Clinical Understanding Textbook and Atlas / by Dongsik Bang, Eun-So Lee, Seonghyang Sohn.

A Turkish dermatologist named Hulusi Beh̃et 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 Beh̃et's disease after him. Since then, there have been more than 4500 report...

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Main Authors: Bang, Dongsik (Author), Lee, Eun-So (Author), Sohn, Seonghyang (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • I Special Contribution
  • Advances in the Immunopathogenesis of Behçet’s Disease
  • II Clinical Understanding of Behçet’s Disease
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Etiopathogenesis
  • 3 Clinical Manifestations
  • 4 Diagnosis
  • 5 Immunologic Aspects
  • 6 Histopathology
  • 7 Interdepartmental Cooperation Approach System
  • 8 Therapy
  • 9 Prognosis
  • 10 Prevention
  • 11 Animal Models
  • Appendix Special issue on Behçet’s Disease of Yonsei Medical Journal (Vol 38, No. 6, December 1997)
  • Appendix 1 Life Story of Dr. Hûlusi Behçet
  • Appendix 2 Molecular Genetics (HLA) of Behçet’s Disease
  • Appendix 3 Behçet’s Disease Etiopathology: Immunological Aspects*
  • Appendix 4 Etiopathology of Behçet’s Disease: Herpes Simplex Virus Infection and Animal Model
  • Appendix 5 Diagnostic Criteria of Behçet’s Diesease: Problems and Suggestions
  • Appendix 6 Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis in the Diagnosis of Behçet’s Disease*
  • Appendix 7 Dermatologic Manifestation of Behçet’s Disease
  • Appendix 8 Ophthalmologic Manifestations of Behçet’s Disease
  • Appendix 9 Behçet’s Disease — A Rheumatologic Perspective
  • Appendix 10 Treatment of Behçet’s Disease
  • Appendix 11 Adamantiades-Behçet’s Disease: Epidemiology in Germany and in Europe*
  • Appendix 12 Clinical Manifestations of Behçet’s Disease: An Analysis of 2147 Patients*
  • Appendix 13 Epidemiological and Clinical Features of Behçet’s Disease in Korea
  • Appendix 14 The Influence of Pregnancy on Behçet’s Disease
  • Appendix 15 Immunological Aspects of Hyperreactivity to Streptococcal Antigens in Behçet’s Disease*
  • Appendix 16 Surgical Treatment of Intestinal Behçet’s Disease.