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[Vaginal ulcers in Behçet disease].
- Source :
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Ginecologia y obstetricia de Mexico [Ginecol Obstet Mex] 2008 Mar; Vol. 76 (3), pp. 178-81. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Incidence of Behçet disease in USA is 0.12 in 100,000; but in Mexico there are just two isolated cases. This paper reports a case of a 30 year-old female, who, when 26, had vaginal ulcers. She received antimicrobial therapy during four years. In March 2007 she came to author's hospital with a cervical vaginitis diagnose study, and presenting thorax with venous collateral circulation secondary to superior and inferior cava vein thrombosis. Colposcopy and vaginal wall biopsy were practiced and found chronic ulcer with vascular damage; oral ulcers were found too, and Pathergy test was positive. Currently there is no ocular damage. Patient received azathioprine therapy without improvement, later she received anticoagulant therapy with corticoids and has good evolution.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Anticoagulants therapeutic use
Azathioprine therapeutic use
Behcet Syndrome diagnosis
Behcet Syndrome epidemiology
Female
Humans
Immunosuppressive Agents therapeutic use
Oral Ulcer etiology
Prednisone therapeutic use
Pregnancy
Superior Vena Cava Syndrome etiology
Ulcer drug therapy
Vaginal Diseases drug therapy
Vaginal Diseases etiology
Vena Cava, Inferior
Venous Thrombosis etiology
Venous Thrombosis prevention & control
Behcet Syndrome complications
Ulcer etiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Spanish; Castilian
- ISSN :
- 0300-9041
- Volume :
- 76
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Ginecologia y obstetricia de Mexico
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 18798414