Behcet's disease presenting with recurrent ocular, oral, and scrotal inflammatory lesions in a young Tanzanian man: a case report

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Behcet's disease (BD) is a rare condition which is diagnosed clinically. Only few cases have been reported in sub-Saharan Africa. We report a Tanzanian male who presented with typical features of BD and was successfully treated. There should be an increase in awareness on...

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Autores principales: Meda, John R, Seni, Jeremiah, Mpondo, Bonaventura, Peck, Robert N, Jaka, Hyasinta, Kilonzo, Semvua B
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25356270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.79
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author Meda, John R
Seni, Jeremiah
Mpondo, Bonaventura
Peck, Robert N
Jaka, Hyasinta
Kilonzo, Semvua B
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Seni, Jeremiah
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description KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Behcet's disease (BD) is a rare condition which is diagnosed clinically. Only few cases have been reported in sub-Saharan Africa. We report a Tanzanian male who presented with typical features of BD and was successfully treated. There should be an increase in awareness on BD to improve the management.
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spelling pubmed-41846482014-10-29 Behcet's disease presenting with recurrent ocular, oral, and scrotal inflammatory lesions in a young Tanzanian man: a case report Meda, John R Seni, Jeremiah Mpondo, Bonaventura Peck, Robert N Jaka, Hyasinta Kilonzo, Semvua B Clin Case Rep Case Reports KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE: Behcet's disease (BD) is a rare condition which is diagnosed clinically. Only few cases have been reported in sub-Saharan Africa. We report a Tanzanian male who presented with typical features of BD and was successfully treated. There should be an increase in awareness on BD to improve the management. Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014-08 2014-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4184648/ /pubmed/25356270 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.79 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Meda, John R
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Mpondo, Bonaventura
Peck, Robert N
Jaka, Hyasinta
Kilonzo, Semvua B
Behcet's disease presenting with recurrent ocular, oral, and scrotal inflammatory lesions in a young Tanzanian man: a case report
title Behcet's disease presenting with recurrent ocular, oral, and scrotal inflammatory lesions in a young Tanzanian man: a case report
title_full Behcet's disease presenting with recurrent ocular, oral, and scrotal inflammatory lesions in a young Tanzanian man: a case report
title_fullStr Behcet's disease presenting with recurrent ocular, oral, and scrotal inflammatory lesions in a young Tanzanian man: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Behcet's disease presenting with recurrent ocular, oral, and scrotal inflammatory lesions in a young Tanzanian man: a case report
title_short Behcet's disease presenting with recurrent ocular, oral, and scrotal inflammatory lesions in a young Tanzanian man: a case report
title_sort behcet's disease presenting with recurrent ocular, oral, and scrotal inflammatory lesions in a young tanzanian man: a case report
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4184648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25356270
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.79
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