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OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the demographical and clinical features of patients with Behçet's disease followed up inAdnan Menderes University Medical Faculty, Dermatology Department. MATERIAL and METHODS: Sixtyseven patients who fullfilled the diagnostic criteria of the International Study Group for Behçet's Disease were included to the study. Patients records were investigated and analysed by using SPSS 14 programme. RESULTS: Patient's age range was between 16-61, mean age was 35.7±10.5 and male/female ratio was 1.48:1. The mean age at the first symptom of the disease was 27.1±9.3, and mean age of the diagnosis of Behçet's disease was 32.4±9.6. Oral ulcers (100.0%) and genital ulcers (97.0%) were the most common findings of the disease. These were followed by papulopustular lesions (72.3%), pathergy positivity (50.8%) erythema nodosum (38.8%), articular involvement (23.9%), eye involvement (21.5%) and thrombophlebitis (9.1%). Thrombophlebitis was seen significantly more frequently in male patients than females (p=0.03). CONCLUSION: The data of patients with Behçet's disease who were followed up in a Dermatology clinic in Aydin were presented as a one centered study. Major findings were mucocutaneous ones and none of the patients had the severe involvement of the Behçet's disease.

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