Are mucocutaneous lesions seasonal in Behçet's disease?

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Purpose: Although it is worth to investigate seasonality in a disease that has recurrent course, this issue not been dealt with sufficiently for Behçet’s disease. The aim of the study was evaluate whether or frequencies its mucocutaneous attacks varied between months year. 
 Materials and Methods: One hundred eight patients were retrospectively evaluated terms oral aphthae, genital ulcers, erythema nodosum. For their each visit, four-week period preceded visit dates attack onsets taken into consideration. Then, by using them, mean monthly numbers calculated time series analysis.
 Results: higher May October aphthae August seasonalities verified Conclusion: After literature search on PubMed, there only one detected no lesions disease, aphthae. However, noting analysis utilized these studies. Since present retrospective, results should be diary-based prospective studies include analysis.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Cukurova Medical Journal

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['2602-3040', '2602-3032']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17826/cumj.980169