Cutaneous Capillary Changes in Lupus Erythematosus

Autor: James C. Lawler, Lee R. Lumpkin
Rok vydání: 1961
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Zdroj: Archives of Dermatology. 83:636
ISSN: 0003-987X
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.1961.01580100100013
Popis: Since Cazenave's description of chronic discoid lupus erythematosus as a unique localized skin disease, there has been a gradual evolution of thought concerning this disease. In recent years, carefully performed clinical, pathological, and laboratory investigations have provided considerable evidence that lupus erythematosus, in all its clinical forms, is a generalized disease. Pathologic studies 1,2 have shown that there is involvement of the vasculature of all organs demonstrating lesions of this disease. This may vary in severity from simple capillary dilatation without damage of the vessel wall to complete fibrinoid necrosis of the wall with obliteration of the lumen. Abnormalities of the superficial vessels within the cutaneous lesions of lupus erythematosus have been noted by capillary microscopy. Gilje 3 and Davis and Lawler 4 found a marked decrease in the number of end capillaries in chronic discoid lupus, and Gilje 3 reported similar changes in the cutaneous lesions of acute disseminate
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