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Epidemiology and clinical course of Behçet's disease in the Reggio Emilia area of Northern Italy: A seventeen‐year population‐based study

Carlo Salvarani, Nicolò Pipitone, Mariagrazia Catanoso, Luca Cimino, B Tumiati, Pierluigi Macchioni, Gianluigi Bajocchi, Ignazio Olivieri, Luigi Boiardi

Arthritis Care & Research · 2007 · 114 citations · 41 references

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This population-based study is the first to report the prevalence and incidence of BD in Italy. In Italian patients, BD is nonfatal and the prognosis of eye disease is good.

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