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A BEHCET PATIENT COMPLICATED WITH GASTRIC CARCINOMA

SAHENDER GÜLBİN AYGENCEL, YUSUF AKCAN

Turkish Journal of Cancer - 1998;28(3):146-147

Departments of Internal Medicine Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara-Türkiye

 

Behçet's disease is a chronic, multisystemic and inflammatory vasculitis. The development of a malignant process in the clinical course of this disease is rare and regarded as an incidental finding. This report represents an interesting association of gastric carcinoma in a patient with Behçet's disease.