title: Behçet's disease and surgical intervention.
abstract: Behçet's Disease (BD) is a systemic disorder with an unknown etiopathogenesis. The need for clinical criteria in the establishment of diagnosis is of great importance. We present the case of a 27-year-old man with BD, who had a surgical operation during the active period of his disease and experienced subsequent complications. Cutaneous hyper-reactivity response to minor cutaneous trauma--the pathergy phenomenon--is found in most patients with BD. Theoretically, major traumas may lead to major reactions in the skin or any of the organs. In practice, we observed that while there was a severe inflammatory reaction--histopathologically a superficial perivascular dermatitis--which developed at the incision site, the systemic symptoms of the disease increased in spite of intensive treatment of the condition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, University of Gazi, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bozkurt
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Torin
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Aksakal
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ataoglu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001064:Appendicitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D003872:Dermatitis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications