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Vasculitis is a reaction of blood vessels to circulating noxious agents. Vasculitis is also known to Greek/Latin purists as angiitis. It embraces a number of morphological patterns named during the past 200 years. Historical terms include, in order of their first description: erythema nodosum, polyarteritis nodosa, Henoch-Schonlein purpura, erythema elevatum diutinum, pyoderma gangrenosum, Wegener’s granulomatosis, Churg and Strauss syndrome, hypersensitivity angiitis, livedoid vasculitis and Degos’s atrophic papulosis.
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Ryan, T. (2000). Cutaneous Vasculitis. In: Katsambas, A.D., Lotti, T.M. (eds) European Handbook of Dermatological Treatments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03835-2_19
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