A comparative study of the pathergy reaction among Turkish and British patients with Behcet's disease.
- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Annals Of The Rheumatic Diseases
- Vol. 43 (1), 74-75
- https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.43.1.74
Abstract
Forty-eight Turkish and 12 British patients along with 24 Turkish and 7 British healthy controls were assessed for the presence of the pathergy phenomenon. A photographic method with blind reading was utilized. The pathergy phenomenon was present only among the Turkish patients.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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