Vol.101 No.6 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 101 No. 6 June 2008
Two Cases of Incomplete Type and Suspected
Type of Behcet's Disease
Takuma Sekita and Akio Kondo
(Takamatsu Municipal Hospital)
Noriaki Takeda
(University of Tokushima School of Medicine)
We report two cases of an incomplete type and a suspected type of Behcet's disease that met the diagnostic criteria. Both patients complained of acute sore throat with multiple oropharyngeal aphthous ulcers. The first case had additional diagnostic symptoms of genital ulcers, skin lesions of erythema nodosum with gastrointestinal ulcers, leading to a diagnosis of incomplete type of Behcet's disease. The second patient had additional diagnostic symptoms of genital ulcers with positive HLA-B51 and abnomal signals on brain MRI, leading to a diagnosis of suspected type of Behcet's disease.
Key words :Behcet's disease, oropharyngeal aphthous ulcers, genital ulcer, diagnostic criteria