Systemic vasculitis with coexistent large and small vessel involvement. A classification dilemma
R. D. deShazo, A. I. Levinson, O. J. Lawless and G. Weisbaum
A patient with systemic vasculitis had the palpable purpuric lower
extremity lesions of leukocytoclastic vasculitis and the renal aneurysms of
polyarteritis nodosa, features thought to clearly separate these two
syndromes. Questions are raised pertinent to the classification, diagnosis,
treatment, and prognosis of systemic vasculitis.
