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Case-reports from two female patients with an occlusion||| of the right external iliac artery and femoral artery are presented due to a||| large-vessel vasculitis. Both patients suffered from systemic lupus||| erythematosus This rare manifestation occurred within the first few years of||| the disease and was important for prognosis and further treatment. Other||| manifestations of the disease were general symptoms and polyarthritis. In one||| case the vasculitis was confirmed by histology. A fibrous thickening of the||| intima and a vasculitis of small vessels within the adventitia were the||| prominent feature. This observation supports the idea of small vessel||| vasculitis as the characteristic manifestation in lupus||| erythematosus.
Schwarz-Eywill
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I. Medizinische Klinik Stadtisches Klinikum|| Dresden-Friedrichstadt Friedrichstr. 41 D-01067 Dresden.
Rinaldi
N
Barth
T
Nusslein
HG