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Antiphospholipid antibodies and necrotizing purpura
L Naldi1, L Marchesi, G Finazzi
1Department of Dermatology, Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Italy.
Dermatologica
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A 30-year-old woman with recurrent necrotizing purpura on the legs which did not fit, to our knowledge, within any distinctive pathological entity, is described. Laboratory investigations disclosed a mild thrombocytopenia and antiphospholipid antibodies, i.e. lupus anticoagulant and anticardiolipin. Cutaneous lesions may be an early marker of the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.