Diseases

Behcet Syndrome

Rare chronic inflammatory disease involving the small blood vessels. It is of unknown etiology and characterized by mucocutaneous ulceration in the mouth and genital region and uveitis with hypopyon. The neuro-ocular form may cause blindness and death. SYNOVITIS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; gastrointestinal ulcerations; RETINAL VASCULITIS; and OPTIC ATROPHY may occur as well.

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Rare chronic inflammatory disease involving the small blood vessels. It is of unknown etiology and characterized by mucocutaneous ulceration in the mouth and genital region and uveitis with hypopyon. The neuro-ocular form may cause blindness and death. SYNOVITIS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; gastrointestinal ulcerations; RETINAL VASCULITIS; and OPTIC ATROPHY may occur as well.

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  • Adamantiades-Behcet Disease
  • Behcet Disease
  • Behcet Triple Symptom Complex
  • Behcet's Disease
  • Behcet's Syndrome
  • Behçet Disease
  • Old Silk Route Disease
  • Triple Symptom Complex
  • Triple-Symptom Complex
  • Adamantiades Behcet Disease
  • Adamantiades-Behcet Diseases
  • Behçet Diseases
  • Symptom Complex, Triple
  • Triple Symptom Complices

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

in translations spell Behçet's, not Behcet's

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History Note

2003 (1963)

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WG 505

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Behcet Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001528. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001528
  2. Behcet Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beh%C3%A7et%27s_disease
  3. Behcet Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911427