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- Title
Leucocytoclastic Vasculitis as a Presentation of Adenocarcinoma Rectum.
- Authors
Koizumi, N.; Watanabe, H.
- 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.
- Subjects
VASCULITIS; VASCULAR diseases; LEUCOCYTES; RHEUMATOLOGY; ADENOCARCINOMA; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, 2005, Vol 51, Issue 3, p215
- ISSN
0022-3859
- Publication type
Article