We describe a patient who presented with constitutional symptoms, severe hypertension, and purpuric lesions over the knees, thighs, and penis. The patient was eventually diagnosed as having multiple endocrine neoplasia type II, with cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis. The cutaneous vasculitis per
Cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis associated with mycobacterial and salmonella infection
✍ Scribed by Sulaiman M. Al-Mayouf; Sultan Bahabri; Mahmuod Majeed
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0770-3198
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