Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa: for several years intermittent, exceptionally painful, moderately hardened, reddened, plaques and brown discolouration in a 35-year-old, otherwise completely healthy woman. Accompanying moderately pronounced lymphoedema, which increases slightly over the years and solidifies over time. Significant improvement under immunosuppressive therapy. Freedom of appearance only under constant IVIG treatment.
Cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa: doughy indurated plaques with blurred redness and brown discolouration of the skin that have been present for years, accompanied by a marked left-sided lymphoedema that has hardened over the years.
Polyarteritis nodosa, cutaneous.
Polyarteriitis nodosa, cutaneous. 54-year-old female patient. Painful doughy indurated plaques on blurred reticular redness of the skin, existing for years. Pronounced variable oedema of the ankle region.
Polyarteritis nodosa, cutaneous. 54-year-old female patient. painful doughy indurated plaques and nodules on blurred reticular redness (image of livedo racemosa) of the skin existing for years. distinct unilateral lymphedema of the ankle region.
polyarteritis nodosa, cutaneous. cutaneous, subcutaneous palpable, partly ulcerated, painful papules and PLaques. livedo racemosa-like bordering (leading symptom as an indication of persistent vasculitis! ). in the centre areal yellow-brown discolorations as a sign of the scarring that has occurred.
Polyarteritis nodosa, cutaneous. severe septal panniculitis with vasculitic changes of medium-sized vessels.
polyarteritis nodosa, cutaneous. clinical picture chronic for years. see clinical figure. medium-sized widely destroyed vessel (small artery) in a fatty tissue septum. walls loosened, fibrinoid swollen, interspersed with inflammatory cells. small, older, already reorganized thrombus in the constricted vascular lumen. perivascular edema.
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