Destructive Arthritis in Paediatric Behçet’s Disease: A Case Report
Catarina Dantas Soares, Hugo Parente, Maria Pontes-Ferreira, Anita Cunha, Daniela Santos-Faria · Aktuelle Rheumatologie · 2026 · Heft 01 · S. 45-46
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Abstract Introduction Behçet’s disease (BD) is a systemic inflammatory disease that affects blood vessels of any calibre and has a relapsing and remitting course. Its main features include recurrent oral and genital ulcers, other skin lesions such as pseudo-folliculitis and erythema nodosum, but also uveitis and arthritis. Arthritis in BD is usually described as mono or oligoarticular, non-erosive, affecting mainly large peripheral joints of lower limbs. In paediatric BD, up to forty percent of patients have articular involvement. We present a rare case of a patient who was diagnosed with mucocutaneous, ocular a…
