Bone erosion of the sternocostal joint in a patient with Behcet's disease.
Behcet's disease (BD) is a polysymptomatic and recurrent systemic vasculitis with a chronic course and unknown cause. Erosive arthropathy is extremely rare. We report a 52-year-old female patient with BD demonstrating bone erosion of the sternocostal joint.
Nanke
Yuki
Y
Institute of Rheumatology, Tokyo Women's Medical University.
Kobashigawa
Tsuyoshi
T
Yago
Toru
T
Ichikawa
Naomi
N
Yamanaka
Hisashi
H
Kotake
Shigeru
S
D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000473:pathology*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013248:Sternocostal Joints / Q000473:pathology*