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Polyarteritis nodosa of the pericardium: antemortem diagnosis in a pericardiectomy specimen
P J Hu1, I M Shih, G M Hutchins
1Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|October 23, 1997
Abstract:
A 74-year-old white woman with diffuse myalgias, low grade fever, and pericardial effusion was found to have polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) in a pericardiectomy specimen. This diagnosis was confirmed at autopsy. Although pericardial involvement in PAN has been described, this is the first report of PAN diagnosed in a pericardiectomy specimen.