Behçet's Syndrome

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The Royal Society of Medicine of London has recently held a multidisciplinary symposium on Behçet's syndrome, arranged by Professor T. Lehner of Guy's Hospital and Dr. Colin Barnes of the London Hospital; the transactions are to be published shortly.1 Behçet2 was a Turkish dermatologist who described in 1937 the triad of relapsing iridocyclitis with recurrent oral and genital ulceration. The numerous masquerades of this disease are reminiscent of syphilis in the pre-penicillin era. It was always important to remain alert to the possibility of syphilis; otherwise, it was occasionally overlooked. The same may now be said for the multisystem patterns . . .

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