A Case of Nodular Scleritis in Association With Behcet’s Disease

Approximately 50 % of patients with scleritis are known to be associated with systemic connective tissue diseases or vasculitic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Wegener’s granulomatosis, relapsing polychondritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. The patients with scleritis in association...

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Autores principales: Chang, Hyun Kyu, Cho, Eun Hee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2001
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11417306
http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2001.16.1.47
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description Approximately 50 % of patients with scleritis are known to be associated with systemic connective tissue diseases or vasculitic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Wegener’s granulomatosis, relapsing polychondritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. The patients with scleritis in association with Behcet’s disease (BD) have been rarely described in the literature. We report a 46-year-old female patient with BD who developed the nodular scleritis.
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spelling pubmed-45316972015-10-02 A Case of Nodular Scleritis in Association With Behcet’s Disease Chang, Hyun Kyu Cho, Eun Hee Korean J Intern Med Case Report Approximately 50 % of patients with scleritis are known to be associated with systemic connective tissue diseases or vasculitic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), Wegener’s granulomatosis, relapsing polychondritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. The patients with scleritis in association with Behcet’s disease (BD) have been rarely described in the literature. We report a 46-year-old female patient with BD who developed the nodular scleritis. Korean Association of Internal Medicine 2001-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4531697/ /pubmed/11417306 http://dx.doi.org/10.3904/kjim.2001.16.1.47 Text en Copyright © 2001 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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