Catalog
Behçet disease
Link to WHO Definition
Behçet disease – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1668927157
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.