Muscle involvement in behcet's diseases
β Scribed by Rida Frayha
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 272 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3591
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had gone into spontaneous clinical remission 5 years ago, but she also had the group's highest ESR (30 mm/hour). Control of her disease by suppressor T cells might be suggested, but her cells did not seem to bear the Ia marker (the percentage of OK1 1 + cells was not elevated), although the increase
## LETTERS fluid C3 complement was 28 mg/dl with a serum C3 complement of 80 mg/dl. Examination of the synovial fluid under polarized light microscopy revealed multiple intracellular birefringent crystals. The crystals were small and the long axis could not be well determined, but they had the mor