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DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-861429
Intestinal Behçet’s Disease Diagnosed by Capsule Endoscopy
Publication History
Publication Date:
11 July 2005 (online)
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Figure 1 A 24-year-old woman with known Behçet’s disease complained of intermittent cramping abdominal pain. The diagnosis of Behçet’s disease had been based on necrotizing vasculitis at the vulva. The abdominal pain always resolved promptly when steroids were given; no nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) were taken. In the middle jejunum, capsule endoscopy revealed pseudopolypoid lesions without villi, as described in enteroclysis studies.
Figure 2 Small aphthoid lesions were found within the terminal ileum. The two distinct lesions seen on capsule endoscopy are indicative of intestinal involvement, namely the mucosal form of Behçet’s disease.
P. Bauerfeind, M. D.
Universitätsspital Zürich
Abteilung Gastroenterologie
Department für Innere Medizin
Rämistraße 100
8091 Zürich
Switzerland
Fax: +41-1-2554503
Email: peter.bauerfeind@usz.ch