the skin hyperreactivity, detected by the pathergy test, is a well known phenomenon in behcet's disease. two different methods were used for the pathergy test. a) a needle prick, b) an intadermal injection of normal saline. in this study 83% of behcet's patients had a positive pathergy test. where as 44% was of pustule type and 39% of papule type. in 26% of patients the papule formati...
