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There are 17 sets of diagnosis/classification criteria for Behcet's disease: Curth (1946), Hewitt (1969), Mason (1971), Japan (1972), Hubault (1974), O'Duffy (1974), Cheng (1980), Dilsen (1986), Japan revised criteria (1988), International Study Group on Behcet's disease (ISG criteria, 1990), Iran traditional criteria (1993), Iran Classification Tree (1993), Dilsen revised criteria (2000), Korea Criteria (2003), International Criteria for Behcet's Disease (ICBD, 2006) and the revised ICBD (2010). This review is intended to show how to use them and show their performance in patients from different parts of the world. The major sets of patients (patient numbers, control numbers, year) on which the criteria were tested are: ISG set (886/97/1990), Iran (2069/1540/1993), Asia and Pacific League of Associations for Rheumatology (APLAR: 216/145/1998), Russia (105/233/2000), USA (50/NA/2000 [NA: not available]), India (50 …