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Diffuse angioma‐like changes associated with chronic DIC
Author(s) -
BOLTONMAGGS P.H.B.,
RUSTIN M.H.A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1988.tb01965.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , disseminated intravascular coagulation , vasculitis , complication , angioma , thrombosis , dermatology , biopsy , cutaneous vasculitis , vascular disease , skin biopsy , surgery , radiology , pathology , disease
Summary Chronic disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is an uncommon complication of several diseases, the most frequent of which is malignancy. 1 Patients present with symptoms of either thrombosis and/or haemorrhage, or they may be symptom‐free and the DIC discovered as a result of laboratory tests. We report a patient who presented with cutaneous lesions only and in whom angiomatous changes were found in the skin biopsy. Within the haemangioma there was a vasculitis. This case is unusual because of the manner in which the haemangioma was diagnosed, the association with vasculitis, and the adult age of the patient at diagnosis.