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Descriptor English:   Behcet Syndrome 
Descriptor Spanish:   Síndrome de Behçet 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Síndrome de Behçet 
Synonyms English:   Behcet Disease
Behcet's Syndrome
Triple-Symptom Complex  
Tree Number:   C07.465.075
C11.941.879.780.880.200
C14.907.940.100
C17.800.862.150
Definition English:   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. 
Indexing Annotation English:   in translations spell Behçet's, not Behcet's
History Note English:   2003 (1963) 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
blood cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced classification
congenital complications
diet therapy diagnosis
drug therapy economics
ethnology embryology
enzymology epidemiology
etiology genetics
history immunology
metabolism microbiology
mortality nursing
pathology prevention & control
physiopathology parasitology
psychology radiography
rehabilitation radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy surgery
therapy urine
ultrasonography veterinary
virology  
Record Number:   28255 
Unique Identifier:   D001528 

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