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Familial vasculitis: report of 2 families
M Rottem1, M F Cotch, A S Fauci
1Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
We observed systematic vasculitis (polyarteritis nodosa and Wegener's granulomatosis) in several members of 2 different families. Our experience and a review of the literature suggests that genetic factors are important but not sufficient to express clinical features of these diseases.