Tonsillectomy to Effectively Treat a Patient with Behçet's Disease

Behçet's disease (BD) is a polysymptomatic and recurrent systemic vasculitis with a chronic course and unknown cause. We herein report a 27-year-old woman who had suffered from a recurrent fever and tonsillitis for nearly ten years with BD for who tonsillectomy was effective.

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Veröffentlicht in:	Internal Medicine 2016, Vol.55(5), pp.515-517
Hauptverfasser:	Nanke, Yuki, Kobasigawa, Tsuyoshi, Yoda, Keiko, Yamanaka, Hisashi, Kotake, Shigeru
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Behcet Syndrome - complications Behcet Syndrome - immunology Behcet Syndrome - pathology Behçet's, tonsillectomy Female Fever - etiology Glucocorticoids - therapeutic use Humans Methylprednisolone - therapeutic use Tonsillectomy tonsillitis Tonsillitis - etiology Tonsillitis - immunology Tonsillitis - surgery Treatment Outcome
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Zusammenfassung:	Behçet's disease (BD) is a polysymptomatic and recurrent systemic vasculitis with a chronic course and unknown cause. We herein report a 27-year-old woman who had suffered from a recurrent fever and tonsillitis for nearly ten years with BD for who tonsillectomy was effective.
ISSN:	0918-2918 1349-7235
DOI:	10.2169/internalmedicine.55.5209