A case of cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa manifested by spiking high fever, arthralgia and macular eruption like adult-onset Still's disease

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 419-421

  Kato, Takashi ^a   Fujii, Kenji ^a   Wakabayashi, Tomoe ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Hidaka, Yuji ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult onset Still's disease (AOSD); Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa; Livedo reticularis; Polyarteritis nodosa; Skin biopsy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIVEDO RETICULARIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; NECROTIZING ARTERITIS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FEVER; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PREDNISOLONE; SKIN DISEASES, VASCULAR; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645768505     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-005-0022-3     Document Type: Article

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