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Ann Med Interne (Paris)
January 1989
Service de Médecine Interne, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire, Hôpital Nord, Amiens.
Circulating immune complexes are thought to play an essential part in the pathogenesis of necrosing angiitis. This theory also allows a role to be attributed to certain infectious agents (viral, bacterial, parasitic) in the development of periarteritis nodosa (PAN). An infectious syndrome was found in all our 9 patients, aged 26 to 69 years, with histologically confirmed PAN: previous infection (over 15 days before hospital admission): otitis, hepatitis B, tonsillitis, ascaris (Case n.
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