To the diagnosis of periarteritis nodosa

In recent years, there has been a significant increase in systemic vascular diseases, including periarteritis nodosa and Wegener's granulomatosis [5]. If by 1933 M.D. Zlatnikov [4] had collected 260 papers published on this issue in the world literature, of which 33 - in the domestic literature, by 1960 R.V. Volevich [1] had already analyzed more than 1500 observations of this disease, including over 450 in the USSR. O. Engelbert et al. in 1960. [8] on 41478 autopsies met nodular periarteritis in 0.13% of cases.