title: Ileocecal ulcers accompanied by relapsing polychondritis: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Mouth and genital ulcers with inflamed cartilage (MAGIC) syndrome is a rare overlap syndrome that includes features characteristic of both Behçet's disease (BD) and relapsing polychondritis (RP).
  
  
  METHODS
  A 30-year-old female complained of lower abdominal pain and bloody stools during medical treatment for RP. Total colonoscopy revealed oval-shaped deep ulcers on the terminal ileum similar to those of intestinal BD. After performing the ileocecal resection, both RP and gastrointestinal lesions relapsed, but improved with infliximab treatment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During medical treatment for RP, we experienced a rare case with ileocecal ulcers similar to intestinal BD. Although our case did not meet the diagnosis criteria of intestinal BD because of the lack of BD's major clinical symptoms, intestinal lesions shared quite similar features with intestinal BD. Our case could possibly be a rare subtype of MAGIC syndrome that had the features characteristic of both intestinal BD and RP.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We described a rare case of ileocecal ulcers without any BD symptoms but accompanied by RP, possibly be a subtype of MAGIC syndrome.
authors: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan.
authors: Yoko
authors: Y
authors: Kawakami
authors: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan.
authors: Katsuya
authors: K
authors: Endo
authors: Department of Hematology and Rheumatology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan.
authors: Tomonori
authors: T
authors: Ishii
authors: Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan.
authors: Sho
authors: S
authors: Haneda
authors: Department of Pathology, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan.
authors: Fumiyoshi
authors: F
authors: Fujishima
authors: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan.
authors: Yoichi
authors: Y
authors: Kakuta
authors: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan.
authors: Hisashi
authors: H
authors: Shiga
authors: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan.
authors: Yoshitaka
authors: Y
authors: Kinouchi
authors: Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8574 Japan.
authors: Tooru
authors: T
authors: Shimosegawa
keywords: Ileocecal ulcers; Intestinal Behçet’s disease; MAGIC syndrome; Relapsing polychondritis