INFLAMMATORY PSEUDOTUMOR OF THE TERMINAL ILEUM MIMICKING MALIGNANCY IN A PATIENT WITH BEHCETS-DISEASE - CT AND PATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS

Behcet's disease is an idiopathic, recurrent multisystem syndrome char acterized by oral aphthous ulcers, genital ulcers, and ocular inflamma tion. Small bowel involvement may occur in 1% of patients with aphthou s ulceration which may mimic Crohn's disease. We report a case of a pa tient with Behcet's disease with small bowel pathology which simulated a mass and at surgery was an inflammatory pseudotumor. Inflammatory p seudotumors can be mistaken for a malignancy as was the case in this p atient.