NECROTIZING VASCULITIS OF GALLBLADDER AND APPENDIX - SIMILARITY IN MORPHOLOGY OF RHEUMATOID ARTERITIS AND POLYARTERITIS-NODOSA

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 67  (6) , 608-612
Abstract
Two patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and polyarteritis nodosa (PN) presented with abdominal pain. Both revealed necrotizing vasculitis of the gallbladder and appendix, respectively. The controversial role of corticosteroids in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arteritis, the rarity of rheumatoid arteritis of the gallbladder, and the morphologic similarity of the vascular lesion in the gallbladder and appendix are discussed.

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