Abstract
Hulusi Behçet, a dermato-venerologist in Istanbul, described three patients with oral aphthous and genital ulceration along with hypopyon uveitis in 1937. Although he is honored with the eponymous syndrome, it may have been first described in Hippocrates’ third book of endemic diseases in 5th century bc. Benedictos Adamantiades, a Greek ophthalmologist, independently described the syndrome in 1930, and the disease is known as Adamantiades–Behçet’s syndrome in some parts of the world.
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Watts, R.A., Scott, D.G.I. (2010). Behçet’s Disease. In: Watts, R., Scott, D. (eds) Vasculitis in Clinical Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-247-6_13
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