THE COMBINED USE OF HLA-B5 AND THE PATHERGY TEST AS DIAGNOSTIC MARKERS OF BEHCETS-DISEASE IN TURKEY

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  • 1 January 1980
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 7  (2) , 206-210
Abstract
Forty-one of 49 (84%) patients with Behcet''s disease in Turkey carried HLA-B5 (positive B5). Forty of the same 49 (82%) patients had a nonspecific skin hyperreactivity to needle prick (positive pathergy). There were no patients in whom both of these tests were negative.

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