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Case Reports in Rheumatology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 539310, 3 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/539310
Case Report

Bilateral Knee Pain Associated with Bone Infarction in a Patient with Behcet's Disease

Pelin Oktayoglu,1 Figen Cevik,2 Mehmet Tahtasiz,1 Serda Em,1 Mehtap Bozkurt,1 Ahmet Kapukaya,3 and Kemal Nas1

1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Dicle University, 21280 Diyarbakir, Turkey
2Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Diyarbakir State Hospital, 21280 Diyarbakir, Turkey
3Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Dicle University, 21280 Diyarbakir, Turkey

Received 23 September 2012; Accepted 14 October 2012

Academic Editors: S. Hamoud and S. Ikuyama

Copyright © 2012 Pelin Oktayoglu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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