 Behcet Syndrome
"Behcet Syndrome" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D001528
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C07.465.075 C11.941.879.780.880.200 C14.907.940.100 C17.800.862.150
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| Concept/Terms |
Behcet Syndrome- Behcet Syndrome
- Behcet Disease
- Behcet Triple Symptom Complex
- Triple-Symptom Complex
- Behçet Disease
- Old Silk Route Disease
- Triple Symptom Complex
- Adamantiades-Behcet Disease
- Behcet's Syndrome
- Behcets Syndrome
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| 1984 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Behcet Syndrome" by people in Profiles.
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Pincus T, Sokka T. Can a Multi-Dimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ) and Routine Assessment of Patient Index Data (RAPID) scores be informative in patients with all rheumatic diseases? Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2007 Aug; 21(4):733-53.
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Mudun A, Mudun AB, Kocak M, Durlu Y, Unal SN, Cantez S. The role of quantitative 99Tcm-glucoheptonate scintigraphy in the evaluation of acute uveitis in patients with Behçet's disease. Nucl Med Commun. 1994 Mar; 15(3):178-81.
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Keshavarzian A, Saverymuttu SH, Chadwick VS, Lavender JP, Hodgson HJ. Noninvasive investigation of the gastrointestinal tract in collagen-vascular disease. Am J Gastroenterol. 1984 Nov; 79(11):873-7.
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