Polyarteritis nodosa with genital necrosis

Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a multisystemic disease that is characterized by the presence of necrotizing vasculitis of small and medium-sized blood vessels. Genital compromise is rare. Our patient presented a systemic disease associated to genital signs (penis and scrotum skin necrosis). A bilater...

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Autores principales: Grinstein, Paula, Maximiliano, Lopez Silva, Lucas, Yirula, Norberto, Bernardo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Inflammation and Infection
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32518757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101285
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author Grinstein, Paula
Maximiliano, Lopez Silva
Lucas, Yirula
Norberto, Bernardo
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description Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a multisystemic disease that is characterized by the presence of necrotizing vasculitis of small and medium-sized blood vessels. Genital compromise is rare. Our patient presented a systemic disease associated to genital signs (penis and scrotum skin necrosis). A bilateral testicular and glans biopsy was performed and with PAN diagnosis, immunosuppressives treatment was realised for 6 weeks, with favorable progress.
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spelling pubmed-72701922020-06-08 Polyarteritis nodosa with genital necrosis Grinstein, Paula Maximiliano, Lopez Silva Lucas, Yirula Norberto, Bernardo Urol Case Rep Inflammation and Infection Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a multisystemic disease that is characterized by the presence of necrotizing vasculitis of small and medium-sized blood vessels. Genital compromise is rare. Our patient presented a systemic disease associated to genital signs (penis and scrotum skin necrosis). A bilateral testicular and glans biopsy was performed and with PAN diagnosis, immunosuppressives treatment was realised for 6 weeks, with favorable progress. Elsevier 2020-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7270192/ /pubmed/32518757 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101285 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Grinstein, Paula
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Lucas, Yirula
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Polyarteritis nodosa with genital necrosis
title Polyarteritis nodosa with genital necrosis
title_full Polyarteritis nodosa with genital necrosis
title_fullStr Polyarteritis nodosa with genital necrosis
title_full_unstemmed Polyarteritis nodosa with genital necrosis
title_short Polyarteritis nodosa with genital necrosis
title_sort polyarteritis nodosa with genital necrosis
topic Inflammation and Infection
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32518757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2020.101285
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