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Turkiye Klinikleri Jinekoloji Obstetrik, vol.25, no.3, pp.213-216, 2015 (Scopus)
Behçet Syndrome (BS) is a rare chronic, inflammatory, recurrent and multisystemic disease that is characterised by vasculitis throughout the body. BS is an autoimmune disease that affects the neurological and gastrointestinal systems that is characterized by reoccurring oral and genital aphthosis, arthritis, eye and cutaneous lesions. In BS, genital lesions have been reported at rates of 60-90% in different series. Lesions are observed most commonly on the vulva labium majora, followed by the vagina and uterine cervix in descending order. However, no previous study has reported a lesion on the vaginal cuff of a patient who has undergone total hysterectomy. In this study, for the first time, we defined a rare vaginal cuff ulcer in a patient previously diagnosed with BS. This case study will be the first in literature and contribute to it by revealing the appearance of a genital ulcer on the vaginal cuff caused by BS. Moreover, we think that it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of vaginal lesions.