Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Overview
(Shunsei Hirohata, Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan)
Chapter 2
Genetics of Behcet’s Disease
(Eun Ha Kang, Yeong Wook Song, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University, Bundang Hospital, Seoul, South Korea, and others)
Chapter 3
Immunological Abnormalities
(Hidekata Yasuoka, Masataka Kuwana, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and others)
Chapter 4
Behçet’s disease from an innate immune perspective
(Hajime Kono, Kurumi Asako, Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan)
Chapter 5
Pathological characteristics
(Shunsei Hirohata, Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Kitasato University School of Medicine
Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan, and others)
Chapter 6
Mucocutaneous involvement
(Do Young Kim, Zheng Zhenlong, Sungwon Suh, Dongsik Bang, Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Biology Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea)
Chapter 7
Eye involvement
(Toshikatsu Kaburaki, Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan)
Chapter 8
Joint involvement
(Yuki Nanke, Shigeru Kotake, Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Kawada-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Chapter 9
Intestinal involvement
(Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Shunsei Hirohata, Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and others)
Chapter 10
Neurological involvement
(Shunsei Hirohata, Department of Rheumatology and Infectious Diseases, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan)
Chapter 11
Vascular involvement
(Hirotoshi Kikuchi, Shunsei Hirohata, Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, and others)
Chapter 12
Prognosis and treatment
(Tetsuji Sawada, Department of Rheumatology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan)
Index
Additional Information
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