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==Clinical== | ==General== | ||
*''Pathergy'' = minor trauma (to the skin) results in a non-healing lesion. | Etiology: | ||
*Unknown - hypothesized to be infectious (due to the epidemiology<ref name=pmid22100288/>) on a background of genetic susceptibility.<ref name=pmid17207160/> | |||
===Clinical=== | |||
*''[[Pathergy]]''<ref name=pmid22100288>{{Cite journal | last1 = Hatemi | first1 = G. | last2 = Yazici | first2 = H. | title = Behçet's syndrome and micro-organisms. | journal = Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol | volume = 25 | issue = 3 | pages = 389-406 | month = Jun | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1016/j.berh.2011.05.002 | PMID = 22100288 }} | |||
</ref> = minor trauma (to the skin) results in a non-healing lesion. | |||
==Microscopic== | |||
Features - small vessel [[vasculitis]]:<ref name=pmid22100288/><ref name=pmid17207160>{{Cite journal | last1 = Kalayciyan | first1 = A. | last2 = Zouboulis | first2 = C. | title = An update on Behçet's disease. | journal = J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol | volume = 21 | issue = 1 | pages = 1-10 | month = Jan | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2006.01863.x | PMID = 17207160 }}</ref> | |||
*[[Fibrinoid necrosis]] of the vessel walls. | |||
*Inflammatory cells in the blood vessel walls. | |||
==See also== | |||
*[[Vasculitides]]. | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist| | {{Reflist|2}} | ||
[[Category:Syndromes]] | [[Category:Syndromes]] | ||