title: [The diagnostic difficulties in a case of Behçet's disease].
abstract: Behçet's disease is a chronic, heterogeneous, multisystem disorder caused by a vasculitis involving arterial and venous vessels of all sized. In 1990, a new set of diagnostic criteria has been proposed as a guide to diagnosis of Behçet's disease, requiring the presence of oral ulcerations plus two of the following symptoms or signs: genital ulcerations, characteristics eye lesions, typical skin lesions, and a positive pathergy test. Nevertheless, both clinic and pathologic diagnosis of Behçet's disease remains sometimes very difficult. Diagnostic procedures and therapeutic implications in a case of Behçet's disease are reported and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Medicina Generale, Ospedale Civile, Tortona.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Davio
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Casagranda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moroni
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Porta
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ratto
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Cosimi
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bobbio-Pallavicini
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Difficoltà diagnostiche in un caso di malattia di Behçet.