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In 1937, Behçet (1937) first described three patients with oral and genital ulceration and hypopyon. It is most common in the Middle and Far East with a prevalence of 7–8 per 100,000 people, whereas in the USA the prevalence is estimated at 4 per 1,000,000 people.
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Chen, H. (2016). Behçet Disease. In: Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counseling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6430-3_23-2
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