A CASE OF BEHCETS-SYNDROME PRESENTING WITH DIEULAFOYS ULCER

Behcet's syndrome represents a multisystemic disease with vasculitic c hanges. We here describe a patient with Dieulafoy's ulcer and oral, ge nital and bronchial mucosal lesions who met the criteria of incomplete Behcet's syndrome. The rare observation of Behcet's syndrome presenti ng with Dieulafoy's ulcer in our patient raises the question as to whe ther this type of ulcer, usually caused by a developmental malformatio n ol a submucosal gastric artery, may occasionally be due also to subm ucosal aneurysms that result from a vascular inflammation.