title: Mature ovarian teratoma as a possible cause of fever and clinical exacerbation in Behçet's disease: a case report.
abstract: Abstract Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic relapsing systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology. BD is very rarely associated with neoplastic diseases. We report the case of a 39-year-old woman who had been treated for BD for 3 years. She presented with relapsing oral and genital lesions and persistent high-grade fever which had lasted for 1 month. The possible cause of the exacerbation of BD and fever in this patient was a mature ovarian teratoma. To our knowledge this is the first report of a patient with BD associated with a ovarian teratoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Haematology, Hacettepe University Medical School , İlk Yerleşim Mahallesi, Güzelevler Blokları B-13/3, Batıkent 06370, Ankara , Turkey.
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