Small intestine & ampulla
Inflammatory disorders
Behçet disease
Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.B.B.S.
Last author update: 1 August 2012
Last staff update: 4 September 2020
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PubMed Search: Behçet disease small bowel
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Definition / general | Case reports | Gross images | Microscopic (histologic) imagesCite this page: Gulwani H. Behçet disease. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/smallbowelbehcet.html. Accessed March 21st, 2023.
Definition / general
- Rare immune mediated systemic vasculitis that often presents with mucous membrane ulceration and ocular problems (Wikipedia: Behçet Disease [Accessed 12 February 2018])
- GI involvement in 10% of cases, usually ileum and cecum
- Punched out ulcers that may perforate
- Perivascular inflammation, necrotizing and nonnecrotising lymphocytic vasculitis affecting small veins and venules is often present
- Also aphthous stomatitis, genital ulcers, relapsing iritis
Case reports
- 30 year old man with massive GI bleeding (Korean J Gastroenterol 2007;49:400)
Gross images
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Microscopic (histologic) images
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