Bang D, Yoon K H, Chung H G, Choi E H, Lee E S, Lee S
Department of Dermatology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Yonsei Med J. 1997 Dec;38(6):428-36. doi: 10.3349/ymj.1997.38.6.428.
Behçet's disease occurs with a high prevalence in the Far East including Korea. In this report we inspected 1,155 patients with Behçet's disease and collected information concerning the clinical and epidemiologic features of Behçet's disease in Korea. In summary, patients in their 30s were the most common, with the most common age of onset in the 20s; the sex ratio was 0.63:1 with female predominance; according to revised Shimizu's classification, the order of frequency of the different types was incomplete (38.2%), suspected (25.4%), possible (20.3%) and complete (16.1%); oral ulcers were the most frequent major symptom (97.5%) and the most common initial symptom (78.5%); erythema nodosum-like lesion (55.3%) was the most common type of skin lesion; a seasonal aggravation of the disease was observed in 21.3% of patients; and the most common type of childhood onset Behçet's disease was suspected type.
白塞病在包括韩国在内的远东地区发病率很高。在本报告中，我们检查了1155例白塞病患者，并收集了韩国白塞病的临床和流行病学特征信息。总之，30多岁的患者最为常见，发病年龄最常见于20多岁；男女比例为0.63:1，女性占主导；根据修订后的清水分类法，不同类型的频率顺序为不完全型（38.2%）、疑似型（25.4%）、可能型（20.3%）和完全型（16.1%）；口腔溃疡是最常见的主要症状（97.5%）和最常见的初始症状（78.5%）；结节性红斑样病变（55.3%）是最常见的皮肤病变类型；21.3%的患者观察到疾病有季节性加重；儿童期发病的白塞病最常见的类型是疑似型。
