Three-month isolated digital gangrene as an initial manifestation of classic polyarteritis nodosa

Rheumatology (Oxford). 2015 Aug;54(8):1384. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kev126. Epub 2015 May 20.

Authors

Takeshi Kondo¹, Takanori Uehara², Kazutaka Noda², Yoshiyuki Ohira², Masatomi Ikusaka²

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Medicine, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan reds_liverpool_2005@yahoo.co.jp.
² Department of General Medicine, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan.

PMID: 25998452
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kev126

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Amputation, Surgical
Disease Progression
Fingers / blood supply
Fingers / pathology*
Fingers / surgery
Gangrene / diagnosis
Gangrene / pathology
Gangrene / therapy
Humans
Male
Polyarteritis Nodosa / diagnosis*
Polyarteritis Nodosa / drug therapy
Polyarteritis Nodosa / pathology*
Prednisolone / therapeutic use
Toes / blood supply
Toes / pathology*
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Prednisolone