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Lupus anticoagulant and leg ulcers associated with ankylosing spondylitis
B Blanchard1, I Lazareth, C Brossel
1Department of Hypertension, Vascular Medicine and Internal Medicine, Saint-Joseph Hospital, Paris, France.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|December 1, 1991
Abstract:
We describe a 60-year-old man with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), hospitalized for leg ulcers. Laboratory investigations revealed the presence of the lupus anticoagulant. We found no such an association by a computer assisted search of the literature published from 1975 to 1989. The relationship between the AS, the lupus anticoagulant and leg ulcers is discussed.