[Pulmonary manifestations of Behcet's disease].

History Behçet’s disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology characterised by recurrent attacks. Although the triple symptom complex of oral and genital ulcerations with uveitis was reported by Hippocrates and other authors who attributed the symptom triad to major infections, Hulusi Behçet, a Turkish dermatologist, discarded the association with other illnesses and was the first to delineate the disease that now bears his name. Clinical manifestations additional to this triad were described later including involvement of the skin, joints, large vessels, lung, brain, gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts (table 1). It is now recognised as a multisystem disease with vasculitis as the main pathological finding.