title: Leucocytoclastic vasculitis as a presentation of adenocarcinoma rectum.
abstract: Vasculitis has been linked to several processes, like infections, drugs and allergic, rheumatologic and neoplastic diseases. Neoplasm-associated vasculitis described in the medical literature has mostly been reported in association with haemotological neoplasms. Adenocarcinoma of rectum presenting as leucocytoclastic vasculitis is rare. We present a case of a 43-year-old male with paraneoplastic leucocytoclastic vasculitis preceding the manifestation of adenocarcinoma rectum. The vasculitis subsided on resection of the rectal malignancy and the patient did not require steroid therapy thereafter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi-110 060, India. atulgogs@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gogia
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kakar
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bhalla
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Byotra
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D018366:Vasculitis, Leukocytoclastic, Cutaneous / Q000209:etiology*