General
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• Rare, immune-mediated systemic vasculitis that often presents with mucous membrane ulceration and ocular problems
  
• Most common in Middle East and Japan
  
• Primarily a clinical diagnosis; affects skin, oral mucosa and eyes with triple symptom complex of recurrent oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers and uveitis
  
• May involve visceral organs
• May be fatal due to ruptured aneurysms or neurological manifestations
  

Clinical images
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Oral ulcers

Micro description
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• Leukocytoclastic vasculitis
  

Micro images
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Various images

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