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Case Reports

A case of Behçet’s disease developing after poststreptococcal acute glomerulonephritis

Yuichiro KitaiDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, Hudegasaki Cho 5-30, Ten-noji Ku, Osaka 543-8555, Japan
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Kosaku MurakamiDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Osaka Red Cross Hospital, Hudegasaki Cho 5-30, Ten-noji Ku, Osaka 543-8555, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Hajime YoshifujiDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Naoichiro YukawaDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Daisuke KawabataDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Koichiro OhmuraDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Takao FujiiDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan;Department of the Control for Rheumatic Diseases, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Tsuneyo MimoriDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan;Department of the Control for Rheumatic Diseases, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, 54 Shogoin-Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan
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Pages 1221-1225 | Received 04 Jun 2012, Accepted 30 Jul 2012, Published online: 14 Jan 2014

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