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REPORT Concurrent occurrence
of allergic granulomatous angiitis and temporal arteritis:
a case report and review of the literature
Makiho Sekiuchi1, Kimimasa
Nakabayashi1 , Tomohumi Marumo1,
Yoshihiro Arimura1, Toshihiko Nagasawa1,
Akira Yamada1 and Yasunori Fujioka2
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First Department of Internal
Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine,
6-20-2 Shinkawa, Mitaka 181-8611, Japan |
| (2) |
Department of Pathology,
Kyorin University School of Medicine, Mitaka, Japan |
Received: 01 September
2004 Accepted: 03 December 2004
Abstract Allergic granulomatous
angiitis (AGA) is a disease entity that was first distinguished
from classical polyarteritis nodosa by Churg and Strauss
in 1951, and is characterized by the clinical features
of allergic rhinitis or bronchial asthma, eosinophilia,
and vasculitis. Allergic granulomatous angiitis has been
described to mainly involve small vessels. We herein describe
a case of Churg Strauss syndrome which demonstrated the
clinical and laboratory findings supporting a diagnosis
of AGA and was also associated with the clinical and pathological
findings for temporal arteritis, which was characterized
by eosinophil infiltration and granuloma formation of
the temporal artery (middle-sized vessel).
Key
words Allergic granulomatous angiitis
(AGA) - Churg Strauss syndrome - Juvenile temporal arteritis
with hyper-eosinophilia - Temporal arteritis
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