Vasculitis confined to the peripheral nerve and skin: a variant of non-systemic vasculitic neuropathy.
We describe a patient presenting with vasculitic neuropathy associated with cutaneous vasculitis in the absence of other clinical or laboratory evidence of the underlying systemic vasculitis, and showing a favourable prognosis. Although the early proposed criteria for the diagnosis of non-systemic vasculitic neuropathy (NSVN) exclude the involvement of extraneural tissues, the condition observed in our patient might represent a variant of NSVN, with the vasculitis confined to the small vessels in both the peripheral nerve and the skin.
Satoh
J
J
Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Saga Medical School, 5-1-1 Nabeshima, Saga 849-8501, Japan.
Yamamoto
T
T
Kuroda
Y
Y
D000368:Aged; D001160:Arterioles / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000145:classification* / Q000503:physiopathology*