chronic periaortitis (retroperitoneal fibrosis) concurrent with recurrent cutaneous eosinophilic vasculitis
;Despoina Kiorpelidou;Georgios Gaitanis;Aikaterini Zioga;Athina C. Tsili;Ioannis D. Bassukas
diogenes2011Vol. 2011pp. -
163
kiorpelidou2011casechronic
Abstract
Chronic periaortitis (CP) is usually accompanied by at least mild manifestations of systemic autoimmunity; however, skin manifestations are rare. Here, we report an 82-year-old woman presenting with a pruritic annular eosinophilic dermatosis that led to the diagnosis of recurrent cutaneous eosinophilic vasculitis (RCEV) coexisting with a latent CP. The present paper is reminder that a CP should be included as a potential differential diagnosis in the elaboration of patients with cutaneous vasculitis that is suspicious of underlying autoimmunity.