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| Year : 2005 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 215-217 |
Leucocytoclastic vasculitis as a presentation of adenocarcinoma rectum
A Gogia1, A Kakar1, S Bhalla2, SP Byotra1
1 Department of Medicine,Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi-110 060, India
2 Department of Pathology, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi-110 060, India
Correspondence Address:
A Gogia
Department of Medicine,Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi-110 060
India
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PMID: 16333196 
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.
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