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Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis in a Patient With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Leukocytoclastic vasculitis is a small vessel vasculitis that is usually confined to the skin with rare extracutaneous manifestation. While this condition can be idiopathic, it has been linked with systemic autoimmune conditions, malignancies, infections, and drugs. In this paper, we present a case...

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Autores principales: Roy Choudhury, Avijoy, Roy Choudhury, Amba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8437013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34548963
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17124
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description Leukocytoclastic vasculitis is a small vessel vasculitis that is usually confined to the skin with rare extracutaneous manifestation. While this condition can be idiopathic, it has been linked with systemic autoimmune conditions, malignancies, infections, and drugs. In this paper, we present a case of a patient who presented with leukocytoclastic vasculitis many years after her diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. It is important that physicians investigate leukocytoclastic vasculitis, as the condition, while often idiopathic, can be a presentation of something more sinister such as malignancy or systemic autoimmune condition.
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spelling pubmed-84370132021-09-20 Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis in a Patient With Rheumatoid Arthritis Roy Choudhury, Avijoy Roy Choudhury, Amba Cureus Dermatology Leukocytoclastic vasculitis is a small vessel vasculitis that is usually confined to the skin with rare extracutaneous manifestation. While this condition can be idiopathic, it has been linked with systemic autoimmune conditions, malignancies, infections, and drugs. In this paper, we present a case of a patient who presented with leukocytoclastic vasculitis many years after her diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. It is important that physicians investigate leukocytoclastic vasculitis, as the condition, while often idiopathic, can be a presentation of something more sinister such as malignancy or systemic autoimmune condition. Cureus 2021-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8437013/ /pubmed/34548963 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17124 Text en Copyright © 2021, Roy Choudhury et al. https://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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Roy Choudhury, Avijoy
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Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis in a Patient With Rheumatoid Arthritis
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title_fullStr Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis in a Patient With Rheumatoid Arthritis
title_full_unstemmed Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis in a Patient With Rheumatoid Arthritis
title_short Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis in a Patient With Rheumatoid Arthritis
title_sort leukocytoclastic vasculitis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8437013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34548963
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