Aneurysm in the skin: arterial fibromuscular dysplasia.
We describe a pulsatile aneurysm in the skin of 16-year-old boy that was found to be a sign of a systemic vascular disease, that is, arterial fibromuscular dysplasia. The patient had aneurysms in the renal, cerebral, coronary, and other arteries; he developed renovascular hypertension and had a cerebrovascular accident and acute myocardial infarction at 17 years of age. This disease has not been previously reported in the dermatologic literature.
Kanzaki
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Department of Dermatology, Nagoya City University Medical School, Japan.
Kobayashi
T
T
Shimizu
H
H
Miura
Y
Y
Takayasu
M
M
Abe
T
T
D000293:Adolescent; D000783:Aneurysm / Q000473:pathology*; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm; D005148:Facial Dermatoses; D005352:Fibromuscular Dysplasia / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm; D008297:Male; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology