RECURRENT GENITO-ORAL APHTHOSIS AND UVEITIS WITH HYPOPYON (BEHCET'S SYNDROME)

Abstract

THIS is a report on cases of a recently (1937) described clinical entity of recurrent ulcerations of the oral cavity and genitals and of repeated attacks of uveitis which, in later stages, is associated with hypopyon. The disease of the eyes may lead to complete loss of vision. Cases of this syndrome had already been reported before 1937. Blüthe¹in 1908, Adamantiades²in 1931 and Dascalopoulos³in 1932 observed patients with this triad. In 1937, Behcet⁴gave the syndrome the name of triple symptom complex, when he recognized the interrelationship of various pathologic processes in one patient. More cases of the triple syndrome or of part of it will, in all probability, be found in the literature reported by dermatologists or gynecologists as cases of recurrent ulcus vulvae acutum or, erroneously, of chancroids, by internists and dentists as cases of recurrent oral aphthae and by