Guest guest Posted September 14, 2005 Report Share Posted September 14, 2005 dear rebecca, yes, that is what i thought. when they look at the biopsy tissue and study the cell structure, they can tell if it is vasculitis related. pg does not show vasculitis involvement " normally " . that was another indication that my pg was related to crohns and not behcet's syndrome. love, jeff > Dear Jeff, > I found this study comparing EN and Behcet's microscopically: > > Histopathologic features of erythema nodosum--like lesions in Behcet > disease: a comparison with erythema nodosum focusing on the role of > vasculitis. > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi? cmd=Retrieve & db=pubmed & dopt=Abstract & list_uids=11048972 & query_hl=11 > > <<Vasculitis was noted in most EN-like lesions in BD.>> > <<In specimens with classic EN, we did not observe vasculitis>> > > So the presence or absence of vasculitis seems to help differentiate > between the two. > > Love, > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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