Cutaneous Extravascular Necrotizing Granuloma in a Patient With Takayasu's Aortitis

Abstract
• Cutaneous extravascular necrotizing granulomas (Churg-Strauss granulomas) have been noted in several systemic diseases, most often those producing or associated with systemic vasculitis. A young man with the clinical and histopathologic features of Takayasu's aortitis developed typical extravascular necrotizing granulomas of the skin. Takayasu's aortitis, like allergic granulomatosis and Wegener's granulomatosis, is a granulomatous vasculitis syndrome associated with the cutaneous Churg-Strauss granuloma. (Arch Dermatol 1986;122:201-204)

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