Behcet's scleritis

Behcet's disease (BD) is a chronic recurrent systemic vasculitis with an unknown etiology and a systemic immune disease. Characteristic manifestations are oral ulcers, genital ulcers and eye inflammation. As early as; the father of medicine; the links between ophthalmitis, oral ulcers and genital ulcers have been discovered during the Hippocrates era. It was not until 1937 that Hulusi Behcet, a Turkish dermatologist, first recognized and described the triad of the disease.

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