Safety and Efficacy of Etanercept in Children with Juvenile-Onset Behcet's Disease

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Behcets disease (BD) is a chronic, relapsing, multi-system inflammatory disorder, clinically characterized by recurrent oral and genital ulcers, skin lesions, and uveitis. Other manifestations include arthritis, a positive pathergy test, thrombophlebitis, central nervous system disease and gastrointestinal ulcerations. The majority of affected individuals do not have life-threatening disease, although mortality...

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