title: Clinical spectrum of Behçet's disease.
abstract: Behçet's disease is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease involving mucous membranes, skin, eyes, the gastrointestinal tract, joints, blood vessels, and the neurologic system. Behçet's disease occurs endemically in the Middle East and Mediterranean regions. It is also distributed in the Central and Far Eastern Asian countries including Korea, Japan, and China. With the volume of clinical information obtained from over 5,000 patients who visited the Behçet's Disease Specialty Clinic, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, informative and educational viewpoints of Behçet's disease including dermatologic and other systemic manifestations were introduced.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
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authors.lastname: Bang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000818:Animals; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007723:Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008875:Middle Aged; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D019226:Oral Ulcer / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011379:Prognosis; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology