A New Diagnostic Way for Behcet's Disease: Skin Prick with Self-Saliva

Table 1

Self-salivary prick test in patients with aphthous ulceration and controls.

Patients	Age, sex (initials)	Prick test	Small pustule	SS-prick	CS-prick
		(after 48 h)
Neuro BD	55 M YY	11×15 mm	+	nd	−
Incomplete	33 F AT*	22×22	−	−	−
	26 F MN*	10×10	+	+ dot	−
	27 M TG	11×12	+	+ dot	−
	47 M YT	10×13	+	+ dot	−
	36 F AN*	5×10	−	nd	−
	46 M KH	10×10	−	−	−
	17 F YT	5×5	−	−	−
Complete	23 M OO*	10×10	+	−	−
Recurrent aphthous stomatitis; (non-BD RAS)	24 F YN	8×10 mm	−	−	−
	28 F YS	8×4	−	−	−
	32 F YN	−	−	nd	−
	29 M ON	−	−	nd	−
	28 F MS	3×5	−	−	−
Disease controls; non-BD EN	39 F KY	−	−	nd	−
	61 F MF	−	−	—	−
Viral aphthosis (3)		−	−	nd	−
Healthy controls (6)		−	−	−	−

BD: Behcet’s disease; EN: erythema nodosum; F: female; M: male; dot: small spot; +: positive; −:negative. S-prick: prick with self-saliva; SS-prick: prick with sterilized self-saliva; CS: prick with saline; nd: not done. The clinical type of BD is followed by the Japanese BD classification. *Same cases in Table 2.