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Early descriptions of Adamantiades-Behçet’s disease
  1. C C Zouboulis1,
  2. P Kaklamanis2
  1. 1Department of Dermatology, University Medical Centre Benjamin Franklin, The Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  2. 2Medical Centre, Athens, Greece
  1. Correspondence to:
    Professor C C Zouboulis, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Centre Benjamin Franklin, The Free University of Berlin, Fabeckstrasse 60–62, 14195 Berlin, Germany;
    zouboulis{at}medizin.fu-berlin.de

https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.62.7.691

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    However, during the annual meeting of the Medical Society of Athens on 15 November 1930, Benediktos Adamantiades (1875–1962),4–6 Greek ophthalmologist from Prussa, Asia minor (nowadays Bursa, Turkey), presented a lecture entitled “A case of relapsing iritis with hypopyon”, describing a 20 year old male patient with …

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