INTESTINAL INFARCTION AFTER AN ANEURYSMAL OCCLUSION OF SUPERIOR MESENTERIC-ARTERY IN A PATIENT WITH BEHCETS-DISEASE

A patient with Behcet's disease, accompanied by a large aneurysm of su perior mesenteric artery, developed an ischemic enteritis with multipl e perforated ulcers. The ischemic necrosis of the intestine preceded b y recurrent abdominal pain was due to an aneurysmal occlusion of super ior mesenteric artery, but not entero-Behcet's disease. This is the fi rst case report of intestinal infarction that occurred in a patient wi th vasculo-Behcet's disease involving the superior mesenteric artery. Vasculo-Behcet's disease should be included in a differential diagnosi s of acute mesenteric artery thrombosis.