title: A patient with fulminant systemic vasculitis type polyarteritis nodosa and negative histology of small bowel infarction.
abstract: A patient with fatal polyarteritis nodosa is described. In spite of overwhelming clinical signs the diagnosis of PAN could not be confirmed by angiography nor histology of macroscopic clearly involved small bowel tissue. Histology of lower limb tissue after amputation confirmed the diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Dienst Immunologie, Allergie en Reumatologie, Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Edegem, Belgium.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dieudonné
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Van Offel
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: De Clerck
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Stevens
mesh_terms: D000671:Amputation, Surgical; D000792:Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000098:blood supply; D007238:Infarction / Q000473:pathology; D007511:Ischemia / Q000473:pathology; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010488:Polyarteritis Nodosa / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000175:diagnosis