| Literature DB >> 18712460 |
Atsushi Komatsuda1, Koji Kinoshita, Masaru Togashi, Nobuki Maki, Rie Masai, Hidetaka Niitsu, Setsuya Ohtani, Masato Sageshima, Ken-ichi Sawada, Hideki Wakui.
Abstract
A 19-year-old Japanese woman with a 4-year history of Crohn's disease (CD) developed high fever, polyarthralgia, and painful subcutaneous nodules of the legs. A skin biopsy showed panarteritis with fibrinoid necrosis in the deep dermis. Endoscopic examination showed aphthous lesions in the entire colon. She was diagnosed with cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) associated with CD. Steroid therapy improved her symptoms. To our knowledge, this is the first Japanese case of cutaneous PAN associated with CD.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18712460 DOI： 10.1007/s10165-008-0110-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mod Rheumatol ISSN： 1439-7595 Impact factor: 3.023