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Wegener's granulomatosis: a new entity in the growing differential diagnosis of Degos' disease.

[malignant atrophic papulosis]

Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) is a multisystemic vasculitis, with skin involvement in 14% of cases and with palpable purpura, subcutaneous nodules and necrotic papules as the common features.(1) We present a patient diagnosed with WG who had multiple whitish papules similar to those of malignant atrophic papulosis (Degos' disease), which appeared during a flare of his disease. Lesions of malignant atrophic papulosis are said to be pathognomonic; nevertheless, various diseases with similar clinical lesions have been described. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of such lesions in a patient with WG, and we suggest WG should be included in the differential diagnosis of Degos' disease.

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  • acute rheumatic fever
  • alexander disease
  • allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
  • aniridia
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex
  • fabry disease
  • focal myositis
  • harlequin ichthyosis
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • kabuki syndrome
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • megacystis-microcolon-intestinal hypoperistalsis syndrome
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • primary hyperoxaluria type 1
  • thoracic outlet syndrome
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma
  • werner syndrome
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

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