Published online May 28, 2013. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v19.i20.3165
Revised: March 1, 2013
Accepted: March 8, 2013
Published online: May 28, 2013
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Core tip: We report a Japanese male diagnosed with an incomplete type of Behçet’s disease who developed multiple aseptic abscesses of the spleen and liver. Spleen abscesses developed with paroxysmal oral aphthous ulcers and erythema nodosum. A splenectomy was performed, and severe neutrophil infiltration was observed without evidence of bacterial or fungal growth. Multiple liver abscesses also developed with right hypochondrial pain and seemed to be attributed to Behçet’s disease because the abscesses yielded negative results during a microbiologic investigation. Oral prednisone (15 mg/d) was started, and the abscesses dramatically disappeared. Clinicians should be aware of the existence of aseptic abscesses as uncommon manifestations of Behçet’s disease.