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Putting the Pieces Into Place: A Case of Systemic Polyarteritis Nodosa

This is a case of systemic polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) in a 43-year-old male who initially presented to the hospital with a puzzling collection of signs and symptoms, including fever, arthralgias, myalgias, abdominal pain, dark urine, and rash. His illness evolved over the course of four weeks, and s...

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Autores principales: Brodell, David, Scott, Glynis, Plovanich, Molly
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32642356
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8442
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description This is a case of systemic polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) in a 43-year-old male who initially presented to the hospital with a puzzling collection of signs and symptoms, including fever, arthralgias, myalgias, abdominal pain, dark urine, and rash. His illness evolved over the course of four weeks, and skin biopsy helped to clinch the diagnosis and lead to appropriate treatment. It is important to consider systemic PAN in the work-up of patients with subtle skin findings in the context of seemingly unrelated constitutional, abdominal, genitourinary, cardiac, and neurological signs and symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-73366942020-07-07 Putting the Pieces Into Place: A Case of Systemic Polyarteritis Nodosa Brodell, David Scott, Glynis Plovanich, Molly Cureus Dermatology This is a case of systemic polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) in a 43-year-old male who initially presented to the hospital with a puzzling collection of signs and symptoms, including fever, arthralgias, myalgias, abdominal pain, dark urine, and rash. His illness evolved over the course of four weeks, and skin biopsy helped to clinch the diagnosis and lead to appropriate treatment. It is important to consider systemic PAN in the work-up of patients with subtle skin findings in the context of seemingly unrelated constitutional, abdominal, genitourinary, cardiac, and neurological signs and symptoms. Cureus 2020-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7336694/ /pubmed/32642356 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8442 Text en Copyright © 2020, Brodell et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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