Diagnosis of Behçet's disease in a non-endemic region: the utility of the urate skin test.
Sporadic cases of Behçet's disease in non-endemic regions pose a diagnostic challenge and may be confused with other more common chronic, relapsing multisystem disorders. The urate skin test, an exaggerated inflammatory reaction to intradermally injected monosodium urate crystals, may add a level of diagnostic specificity to a disease which otherwise lacks pathognomonic clinical features.
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Martindale's Road, St Michael, bb 11155 Barbados. cflowerami@sunbeach.net
D000328:Adult; D001460:Barbados; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019226:Oral Ulcer / Q000209:etiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012882:Skin Tests; D014527:Uric Acid
D014527:Uric Acid