U.C.L.A. Rheumatology Pathophysiology of Disease Course Lecture,
Second Year Medical School 1997
SLE Figure 6
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| Figure 6. Larger digital blood vessels are involved in this patient with SLE and digital infarcts. Vasculitis can occur throughout the body in SLE and leads to injury and necrosis of the involved tissue when the vessel is completely blocked by inflammation. This patient died of a stroke a day after the above picture was taken as a result of cerebral vasculitis. 256 x 221 pixels 10kbs photo CAC | |||||||||||||||
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