title: Pediatric onset of Behçet's syndrome with myositis: case report and literature review illustrating unusual features.
abstract: We report a case of Behçet's syndrome with myositis in a pediatric patient, emphasizing the importance of muscle involvement in the differential diagnosis of calf pain and swelling in Behçet's syndrome. A review of the English-language literature from 1965 to the present suggests that the clinical picture of Behçet's syndrome in children differs from that in adults, in that there is a lower frequency of ocular disease, and unusual manifestations appear to be more common.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Lang
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Laxer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thorner
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Silverman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009220:Myositis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology