Behçet’s disease and malignization: Literature review and authors’ data

Abstract

The paper describes cancers (enteric adenocarcinoma in one case and acute leukemia in the other) in 2 patients with Behçet’s disease (BD) followed up at the V.A. Nasonova Research Institute of Rheumatology. It gives the data available in the literature on BD concurrent with malignant tumors. This concurrence is noted to substantially worsen the prognosis of the disease as a whole.

Keywords

• behçet’s disease
• malignization
• tumor
• leukemia