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HLA-B51 and cigarette smoking as risk factors for chronic progressive neurological manifestations in Behçet's disease

Authors

Kaori Aramaki¹, Hirotoshi Kikuchi¹ and Shunsei Hirohata¹

1. Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan

Received:

13 September 2006

Accepted:

25 October 2006

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Key words

Behçet's disease - HLA-B51 - Neuro-Behçet's syndrome - Smoking