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Paediatric Behçet's disease in France
  1. I Koné-Paut1,
  2. A Gorchakoff-Molinas1,
  3. B Weschler2,
  4. I Touitou3
  1. 1Department of Paediatrics, CHU Nord, Marseilles, France
  2. 2Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Pitié Salpétriére, Paris, France
  3. 3Laboratory of Genetics, Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve, Montpellier, France
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr I Koné-Paut, Hôpital Nord, Department of Paediatrics, Chemin des Bourrelys, 13915 Marseille cedex 20, France;
    ikone-pau{at}mail.ap-hm.fr

https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.61.7.655

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    Our objective was to assess the increase in the number of children with Behçet's disease in France. To our knowledge, this survey is the most extensive reported from a single country.

    Children with Behçet's disease from any part of France were referred to one of three medical centres: Marseille, Montpellier, and Paris. Information was obtained from the medical charts and from the patient's interview. A specific questionnaire was designed to determine the following demographic features: sex, age, city of residence, ethnicity, and familial history with complete pedigree; and the clinical variables: oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulceration, skin lesion, skin hypersensitivity plus other organ involvement—nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, eye, vessels, lungs, heart, joints, genitourinary tract, and fever. The date of onset of the disease was recorded together with the date of appearance of each symptom, and the date at which the patient met the …

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