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A 30-year-old male presented with a 2-year history of recurrent oral ulcers with individual lesions lasting 5 days to 2 weeks. He had recently developed multiple oral ulcers lasting more than 2 weeks bilaterally on the tongue, gum line, and buccal mucosa. What's your diagnosis?
Diagnosis: Behcet's Disease
PORTLAND, ORE. -- The patient's oral lesions began with minor induration and ulceration along the closure line of teeth on the buccal mucosa, according to Dr. Bruce D. Ragsdale, who presented the case at the annual meeting of the Pacific Dermatologic Association.
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