Unusual clinic presentation of polyarteritis nodosa: involvement of axillary and brachial artery. | Read by QxMD (original) (raw)

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Ismail Kocyigit, Sumeyra Koyuncu, Ertugrul Mavili, Aydin Unal, Turgut Tursem Tokmak, Havva Cilan, Feridun Kavuncuoglu, Oktay Oymak, Cengiz Utas

Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a necrotizing inflammatory vasculitis of small- and medium-sized muscular arteries. Multiple organs, especially the kidney, skin, peripheric nerves, striated muscles, and intestine, are affected. In this case report, a patient with renal and hepatic involvement and axillary and brachial artery aneurysm resulting in shoulder hematoma and pain due to underlying PAN is presented.

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