Cerebral vasculitis in relapsing polychondritis.
Recurrent inflammation of cartilage in multiple sites is a hallmark of relapsing polychondritis (RP). Neurologic complications of this disease have begun to attract increasing attention, but the neuropathologic basis of these complications has not been described. We report a patient with RP whose autopsy showed extensive cerebral and systemic vasculitis.
Stewart
S S
SS
Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.
Ashizawa
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Dudley
A W
AW
Goldberg
J W
JW
Lidsky
M D
MD
D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011081:Polychondritis, Relapsing / Q000150:complications*; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology