Review Article
Ulcerative Lesions in Behcet's Disease
Table 1
Differential diagnosis of Behçet’s ulcerations.
| Manifestations | Treatments |
| | Recurrent oral stomatitis | | PFAPA (Periodic fever, aphthous ulcers, pharyngitis, adenopathy) | | Familial Hibernian fever | | Sytemic lupus erythematosus | | Ulcerative colitis | | Coeliac disease and other malabsorption states | | Iron, B12 and folate deficiency | | Human immunodeficiency virus infections | Oral ulcers | Chickenpox | | Hand, foot and mouth disease | | Nicorandil (anal ulcers also reported) | | Bisphosphonates | | Cyclical neutropenia | | Lymphoma | | Bullous skin disease | | Syphilis | | Tuberculosis | | Lichen planus |
| | Complex aphthosis | | Reiter’s syndrome | | Mouth and genital ulcers with inflamed cartilage (MAGIC) | | Crohn’s disease | | Sweet’s syndrome | | Erythema multiforme | Genital ulcers | Bullous skin disease | | Erosive lichen planus | | Fixed drug reaction | | CMV (in immunocompromised patients) | | Herpes simplex (HSV1) | | Chancroid | | Syphilis | | Scabies | | Tuberculosis |
| Vasculitic ulcerations | Sweet’s syndrome | Pyoderma gangrenosum | Erythema multiforme | Pernio | Leukocytoclastic vasculitis | Polyarteritis nodosa |
| Gastrointestinal ulcerations | Crohn's disease | Coeliac disease | Colitis ulcerosa [19, 22] |
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