Intestinal complications of Behçet's disease.

BMJ Case Rep

Department of Colorectal Surgery, University Hospital North Tees, Stockton on Tees, UK.

Published: August 2013

We report a case of a young female patient with long-standing oral and genital Behçet's disease (BD), who presented with progressive severe colonic inflammation and perforation, requiring multiple laparotomies. The case had ultimately a favourable outcome despite posing a number of diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Intestinal complications, although rare, should be considered as important differential diagnoses in patients with BD presenting with abdominal pain, and is a difficult-to-prove differential diagnosis to Crohn's disease.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3762539PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-200253DOI Listing

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