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Vasculitis confined to the peripheral nerve and skin: a variant of non‐systemic vasculitic neuropathy
Author(s) -
Satoh Junichi,
Yamamoto Tatsunori,
Kuroda Yasuo
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
european journal of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.881
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1468-1331
pISSN - 1351-5101
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-1331.1999.tb00020.x
Subject(s) - medicine , vasculitis , systemic vasculitis , cutaneous vasculitis , peripheral neuropathy , pathology , dermatology , systemic disease , peripheral , immunopathology , disease , diabetes mellitus , endocrinology
We describe a patient presenting with vasculitic neuropathy associated with cutaneous vasculitis in the absence of other clinical or laboratory evidence of the underlying systemic vasculitis, and showing a favourable prognosis. Although the early proposed criteria for the diagnosis of non‐systemic vasculitic neuropathy (NSVN) exclude the involvement of extraneural tissues, the condition observed in our patient might represent a variant of NSVN, with the vasculitis confined to the small vessels in both the peripheral nerve and the skin.