title: [Disclosure of Behcet disease by concomitant dental infection].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Behçet's disease can be aggravated by chronic infection. Our case illustrates how the disease can be disclosed during an acute activation of a chronic infectious focus.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 40-year-old man had Behçet's syndrome associating fever, bipolar aphtosis, cutaneous pseudo folliculitis, anterior uveitis, and meningitis following an acute episode of a dental infection, with periapical granuloma. Antibiotic therapy was ineffective in calming this first flare-up of Behçet's disease. Corticosteroid and colchicine therapy were effective.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clinical and experimental work would implicat buccal streptococcal flora in the pathogenesis of Behçet's disease. Antibiotics offer interesting perspectives but further studies are needed to define their role in the treatment of Behçet's disease.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine interne A, Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chevalet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Foulc
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: De Faucal
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pottier
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cassagnau
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Pistorius
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hamidou
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Planchon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014076:Tooth Diseases / Q000150:complications*