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A form of necrotizing non-granulomatous inflammation occurring primarily in medium-sized ARTERIES, often with microaneurysms. It is characterized by muscle, joint, and abdominal pain resulting from arterial infarction and scarring in affected organs. Polyarteritis nodosa with lung involvement is called CHURG-STRAUSS SYNDROME.
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- Periarteritis Nodosa
- Essential Polyarteritis
- Necrotizing Arteritis
- Arteritides, Necrotizing
- Arteritis, Necrotizing
- Essential Polyarteritides
- Necrotizing Arteritides
- Polyarteritides, Essential
- Polyarteritis, Essential
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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1995; was PERIARTERITIS NODOSA 1963-1994; for POLYARTERITIS NODOSA use PERIARTERITIS NODOSA 1968-1994
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Polyarteritis Nodosa. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D010488. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D010488
- Polyarteritis Nodosa. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyarteritis_nodosa
- Polyarteritis Nodosa. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q745162