title: [Myelodysplastic syndrome associated with intestinal tract-type Behçet disease characterized by an esophageal ulcer].
abstract: A 55-year-old man with advanced myelodysplastic syndrome was hospitalized prior to undergoing an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Immediately before hospitalization, he had suffered from phlegmon in both lower extremities and right forearm as well as genital and oral ulcers. After admission, he developed an esophageal ulcer and was thus diagnosed as having intestinal tract-type Behçet disease. HLA-B51 was not present. Within a month, he died of pulmonary hemorrhage associated with pneumonia, possibly because of a low platelet count, and vasculoendothelial damage related to Behçet disease. This is a rare case of myelodysplastic syndrome that developed Behçet disease with a severe esophageal ulcer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Dokkyo University School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Handa
authors.forename: Yukihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: Kinuko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mitani
mesh_terms: D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000150:complications; D004935:Esophageal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009190:Myelodysplastic Syndromes / Q000150:complications*; D013921:Thrombocytopenia / Q000209:etiology; D014456:Ulcer / Q000209:etiology*