International cohort study for pediatric Behçet’s Disease: update 2011
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Methods Centers specializing in PedBD have been called to collaborate documenting their patients into a single online database. An international expert committee has defined inclusion criteria as follows: first sign before 16 years, new patient or patient followed since less than 3 years, patient followed 4 years, consent obtained, and recurrent oral aphthosis [OA] (more than 3 attacks/year) associated to at least one of following symptoms: genital ulceration, erythema, folliculitis, pustulous/acneiform lesions, positive pathergy, uveitis, venous/arterial thrombosis, family history. Data are updated every year and patient’s files are classified by the expert committee into 3 groups: definite, probable and not BD. Statistical analyses are performed to compare the 3 groups.
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