Behçet disease (Q44396)
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Behçet disease is a disease of incompletely understood aetiopathogenesis characterised by recurrent oral and/or genital aphthous ulcers accompanied by cutaneous, ocular, articular, gastrointestinal, and/or central nervous system inflammatory lesions. Small vessel vasculitis, thrombotic vasculopathy, arteritis and arterial aneurysms may occur. It has a high prevalence from the Eastern Mediterranean across Central Asia to China and Japan.
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| English | Behçet disease |
Behçet disease is a disease of incompletely understood aetiopathogenesis characterised by recurrent oral and/or genital aphthous ulcers accompanied by cutaneous, ocular, articular, gastrointestinal, and/or central nervous system inflammatory lesions. Small vessel vasculitis, thrombotic vasculopathy, arteritis and arterial aneurysms may occur. It has a high prevalence from the Eastern Mediterranean across Central Asia to China and Japan. |
