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CASE REPORT: Behçet's Disease Complicated by Toxic Megacolon

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

    Clarisse Adorian & Ala I. Sharara

  2. Department of Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

    Ghattas Khoury

  3. Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

    Ayman Tawil

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  1. Clarisse Adorian
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Adorian, C., Khoury, G., Tawil, A. et al. CASE REPORT: Behçet's Disease Complicated by Toxic Megacolon. Dig Dis Sci 48, 2366–2368 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:DDAS.0000007876.87916.18

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