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Juvenile Behçet's disease: highlighting neuropsychiatric manifestations and putative genetic mechanisms.
Clinical neurology and neurosurgery - 1 Jun 2007
Panicker J N, Vinayan K P, Ahsan Moosa N V, Elango E M, Kumar A Anand
Abstract excerpt
Behçet's disease is a multisystem inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. We report a 12-year-old boy who presented with features of raised intracranial tension and seizures and was found to have cerebral venous sinus thrombosis on evaluation. Behçet's disease was diagnosed based on occurrence of recurrent oral and genital ulcers in the past and characteristic skin lesions subsequently. He also showed...
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