Aortic thrombosis in a patient with a late diagnosis of Behcet's disease

Behcet's disease is form of systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology. One surprising feature is that arterial involvement is less common in this disease than venous forms, accounting for 1 to 7% of patients. In 7 to 30% of cases the vascular symptoms precede the clinical diagnosis of Behcet. We...

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Main Authors: Ana Bittencourt Detanico, Marcelo Luiz Brandão, Ly de Freitas Fernandes, Carolina Parreira Ribeiro Camelo, Juliano Ricardo Santana dos Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Angiologia e de Cirurgia Vascular (SBACV) 2015-06-01
Series:Jornal Vascular Brasileiro
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1677-54492015000200193&lng=en&tlng=en