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Case Number : Case 1773 - 15 March - Dr Hafeez Diwan Posted By: Guest

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Clinical History: 61 year-old female with multiple lesions on legs. This biopsy is from the left shin.

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Raul Perret

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Looks like a large vessel with prominent intramural inflammation and thrombosis. The elastic fiber pattern makes me think more of a vein but it is hard to see the internal muscle layer. In addition eosinophils seem prominent. My differential is PAN/Churg-Strauss vs thrombophlebitis migratory/etc. In these kind of cases CPC is extremely important.

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vincenzo polizzi

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I think this is a vein, because there are collagen bands between the muscle layers, so my first thought is Nodular Vasculitis ( the inflammatory pattern is suppurative and granulomatous). I would like to se more pictures of subcutaneous tissue...in fig 5 you can try to appreciate a septal-lobular panniculitis, but it's arduous! 

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The multiple fragmented elastic fibers inside the muscle wall points to a vein. Ths subcutaneous tissue on picture 5 seems little affected. When putting clinican information together, my first impression is superficial thrombophlebitis.

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vincenzo polizzi

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I'm starting thinking of Wegener Granulomatosis as differential...

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Nitin Khirwadkar

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What about a necrotising granulomatous vasculitis associated with erythema induratum?

Wegener's generally tends to spare the legs, but exceptions can be there.

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Robledo F. Rocha

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Elastic fibers are scant and fragmented throughout the tunica media of the vessel, so it’s a vein. The smooth muscle pattern might be an additional indication, but it is difficult to access due to the obscuring inflammation. Assuming this vessel as a vein, and it is likely to be, a thrombosed subcutaneous vein with mixed infiltrate in its wall and what seems to be only a little inflammatory involvement restricted to the perivascular area makes me favor superficial thrombophlebitis.

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Dr. Hafeez Diwan

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My differential was Churg-Strauss  and PAN.  I also thought about Wegener's.

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Mariantonieta Tirado

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Tough. All comments are valid differentials. The 5th picture looks arterial to me plus eos, neutrophils inclined to Churg-Strauss, Wegener  or PAN. Multiple lesions and bilateral apparently.

I would expect a thrombophlebitis to be unilateral and following the vein. A certain pattern of lesions is not specified.

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Sasi Attili

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All are valid differentials. Needs CPC- I find these cases tough. The last slide shows eosinophils. Drugs excluded?

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Alice Roberts

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Arteritis. Differential includes PAN, drug related,possibly Wegeners or Churg Strauss. Eosinophils admixed with neutrophils but don't seem abundant.

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