Table 1.
Self-salivary prick test in patients with aphthous ulceration and controls.
| Patients | Age, sex (initials) | Prick test | Small pustule | SS-prick | CS-prick |
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| Neuro BD | 55 M YY | 11 × 15 mm | + | nd | − |
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| Incomplete | 33 F AT* | 22 × 22 | − | − | − |
| 26 F MN* | 10 × 10 | + | + dot | − | |
| 27 M TG | 11 × 12 | + | + dot | − | |
| 47 M YT | 10 × 13 | + | + dot | − | |
| 36 F AN* | 5 × 10 | − | nd | − | |
| 46 M KH | 10 × 10 | − | − | − | |
| 17 F YT | 5 × 5 | − | − | − | |
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| Complete | 23 M OO* | 10 × 10 | + | − | − |
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| Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (non-BD RAS) |
24 F YN | 8 × 10 mm | − | − | − |
| 28 F YS | 8 × 4 | − | − | − | |
| 32 F YN | − | − | nd | − | |
| 29 M ON | − | − | nd | − | |
| 28 F MS | 3 × 5 | − | − | − | |
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| Disease controls non-BD EN |
39 F KY | − | − | nd | − |
| 61 F MF | − | − | — | − | |
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| Viral aphthosis (3) | − | − | nd | − | |
| Healthy controls (6) | − | − | − | − | |
BD: Behcet's disease; EN: erythema nodosum; F: female; M: male; dot: small spot; +: positive; −:negative. S-prick: prick with self-saliva; SS-prick: prick with sterilized self-saliva; CS: prick with saline; nd: not done. The clinical type of BD is followed by the Japanese BD classification. *Same cases in Table 2.