ABSTRACT
Behc¸et’s disease (BD) is a multisystem disease characterized by mucocutaneous,
ocular, articular, vascular, intestinal, urogenital, and neurologic involvement. BD
was first described as a triad of recurrent aphthous stomatitis, genital aphthae,
and relapsing uveitis in 1937 by Hulusi Behc¸et, a Turkish dermatologist (1), but
descriptions of the disease features date back to Hippocrates, from his third book
of epidemiology written in the fifth century BC.
