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Vascular Accidents After Actinic (Solar) Exposure
Author(s) -
O'Brien John P.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-4362.1987.tb00562.x
Subject(s) - medicine , polymyalgia rheumatica , arteritis , dermatology , sun exposure , pathology , vasculitis , giant cell arteritis , disease
A link may exist between vascular accidents and identifiable episodes of excessive exposure to actinic radiation. If this is so, the explanation may lie in the bizarre behaviour of the temporal arteritis/polymyalgia rheumatica syndrome. In turn, the syndrome itself seems to be based upon actinically induced damage and reactivity in the elastic tissues at the surface of the body.