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1Department of Neurology, Jikei University Kashiwa Hospital, Kashiwa, Japan. nishiou@mail.tains.tohoku.ac.jp
European Journal of Neurology
|August 2, 2005
Abstract:
We describe a case of cardiac myxoma whose clinical presentation mimicked that of polyarteritis nodosa. The serum levels of MPO-ANCA and IL-6 were elevated on laboratory investigation and normalized after the removal of the tumor. We suggest that a 'true' vasculitic mechanism contributes to the pathogenesis of pseudovasculitis in cardiac myxoma.
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