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cutaneous vasculitis

Thursday 12 August 2004

Digital cases

- Case 198 (HPC:198): Cutaneous eosinophilic vasculitis in Churg-Strauss disease
Digital cases
- UI:634 - Leukocytoclastic vasculitis

Images

- Polyarteritis nodosa : fibrinoid necrosis and neutrophils infiltrating the medium-sized vessels in the deep dermis and subcutis

Lesional patterns

- leukocytoclastic vasculitis
- lymphocytic vasculitis
- neutrophilic vasculitis
- necrotizing vasculitis
- granulomatous vasculitis

Etiology

- infectious cutaneous vasculitis
- inflammatory cutaneous vasculitis
- cutaneous vasculitis in vasculitis syndromes

  • pulmonary Wegener granulomatosis
  • Churg-Strauss syndrome (Churg-Strauss angiitis and granulomatosis )
  • microscopic polyangiitis
  • necrotizing sarcoid granulomatosis
  • cuteanous polyarteritis nodosa
  • small cell vasculitis
  • giant cell arteritis
  • Takayasu arteritis
  • Behcet syndrome
  • Henoch-Schönlein purpura
  • cryoglobulinemic vasculitis
  • hypocomplementemic vasculitis
  • giant cell arteritis
  • disseminated visceral giant cell angiitis

- vascular involvment in lymphoproliferative disorders

  • angiocentric immunoproliferative lesions

See also

- cutaneous vasculitis
- eosinophilic vasculitis

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