title: Intestinal complications of Behçet's disease.
abstract: We report a case of a young female patient with long-standing oral and genital Behçet's disease (BD), who presented with progressive severe colonic inflammation and perforation, requiring multiple laparotomies. The case had ultimately a favourable outcome despite posing a number of diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Intestinal complications, although rare, should be considered as important differential diagnoses in patients with BD presenting with abdominal pain, and is a difficult-to-prove differential diagnosis to Crohn's disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Colorectal Surgery, University Hospital North Tees, Stockton on Tees, UK.
authors.forename: D Botond
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Kovacs
authors.forename: Dipak K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Ray
authors.forename: Kaushik
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dasgupta
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Borowski
mesh_terms: D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007410:Intestinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D055815:Young Adult
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