Leucocytoclastic vasculitis as a presentation of adenocarcinoma rectum

Vasculitis has been linked to several processes, like infections, drugs and allergic, rheumatologic and neoplastic diseases. Neoplasm-associated vasculitis described in the medical literature has mostly been reported in association with haemotological neoplasms. Adenocarcinoma of rectum presenting a...

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Published in:Journal of postgraduate medicine (Bombay) 2005-07, Vol.51 (3), p.215-217
Main Authors: Gogia, A, Kakar, A, Bhalla, S, Byotra, S P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adenocarcinoma - complications
Adult
Humans
Male
Rectal Neoplasms - complications
Vasculitis, Leukocytoclastic, Cutaneous - etiology
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Summary:Vasculitis has been linked to several processes, like infections, drugs and allergic, rheumatologic and neoplastic diseases. Neoplasm-associated vasculitis described in the medical literature has mostly been reported in association with haemotological neoplasms. Adenocarcinoma of rectum presenting as leucocytoclastic vasculitis is rare. We present a case of a 43-year-old male with paraneoplastic leucocytoclastic vasculitis preceding the manifestation of adenocarcinoma rectum. The vasculitis subsided on resection of the rectal malignancy and the patient did not require steroid therapy thereafter.
ISSN:0022-3859
0972-2823