[Significance of ear lobe biopsy in the diagnosis of angiopathies inflammatory-rheumatic diseases].
Biopsy of the ear lobule in inflammatory rheumatic and collagen diseases is not a suitable method for detecting vascular involvement. A perivascular cell infiltration van often be found but it non-specific. The intensity of cell infiltration did not correlate with duration, severity or activity of the disease process.
D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000473:pathology*; D001706:Biopsy; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D002196:Capillaries / Q000473:pathology; D004431:Ear, External / Q000473:pathology*; D006197:Hair; D006644:Histiocytes / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000473:pathology; D008833:Microcirculation / Q000473:pathology; D013167:Spondylitis, Ankylosing / Q000473:pathology*
Die Bedeutung der Ohrläppchenbiopsie zur Diagnostik von Angiopathien bei entzündlich-rheumatischen Erkrankungen