2017 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 38-43
We report a 13-year-old boy who had experienced recurrent stomatitis from the age of 3. On admission, he complained of abdominal pain in the right lower quadrant and the anus, and exhibited 11 kilograms of weight loss during the last 3 weeks. His mother and his cousin on his mother side were diagnosed with Behçet's disease. There were aphthous ulcerations in his mouth and an erosion around the anus, and spiralshaped ulcerative lesions with a white-coating were observed in the ileocecal region by colonoscopy. He was diagnosed with an incomplete form of intestinal-type Behçet's disease according to the criteria. His symptoms as well as laboratory abnormalities improved in response to nutritional treatment for inflammatory bowel disease and oral administration of prednisolone, colchicine, and mesalazine. It appears that this case represents inherited Behçet's disease because of the rich family history.
