A 34 Year Old Man with Purple Discoloration and Paresthesia

Secondary systemic vasculitis and nonbacterial endocarditis are rare events. We report a case presented with different manifestations of underlying malignancy such as systemic vasculitis, non bacterial endocarditis and DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy). Efforts to find the source of mali...

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Main Authors: Iranpour, Aida, Mahmoodian, Reihaneh, Haghighi, Anoosheh, Vakili, Masoud, Shahriari-Ahmadi, Ali, Hajsadeghi, Shokoufeh, Arabi, Mohsen
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3913154/
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spelling pubmed-39131542014-02-06 A 34 Year Old Man with Purple Discoloration and Paresthesia Iranpour, Aida Mahmoodian, Reihaneh Haghighi, Anoosheh Vakili, Masoud Shahriari-Ahmadi, Ali Hajsadeghi, Shokoufeh Arabi, Mohsen Case Report Secondary systemic vasculitis and nonbacterial endocarditis are rare events. We report a case presented with different manifestations of underlying malignancy such as systemic vasculitis, non bacterial endocarditis and DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy). Efforts to find the source of malignancy was unsuccessful and due to patient's unwillingness for further evaluation, finally under the diagnosis of metastatic disease of unknown primary, patient is receiving cyclic chemotherapy. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3913154/ /pubmed/24505550 Text en © 2014 Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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author Iranpour, Aida
Mahmoodian, Reihaneh
Haghighi, Anoosheh
Vakili, Masoud
Shahriari-Ahmadi, Ali
Hajsadeghi, Shokoufeh
Arabi, Mohsen
spellingShingle Iranpour, Aida
Mahmoodian, Reihaneh
Haghighi, Anoosheh
Vakili, Masoud
Shahriari-Ahmadi, Ali
Hajsadeghi, Shokoufeh
Arabi, Mohsen
A 34 Year Old Man with Purple Discoloration and Paresthesia
author_facet Iranpour, Aida
Mahmoodian, Reihaneh
Haghighi, Anoosheh
Vakili, Masoud
Shahriari-Ahmadi, Ali
Hajsadeghi, Shokoufeh
Arabi, Mohsen
author_sort Iranpour, Aida
title A 34 Year Old Man with Purple Discoloration and Paresthesia
title_short A 34 Year Old Man with Purple Discoloration and Paresthesia
title_full A 34 Year Old Man with Purple Discoloration and Paresthesia
title_fullStr A 34 Year Old Man with Purple Discoloration and Paresthesia
title_full_unstemmed A 34 Year Old Man with Purple Discoloration and Paresthesia
title_sort 34 year old man with purple discoloration and paresthesia
description Secondary systemic vasculitis and nonbacterial endocarditis are rare events. We report a case presented with different manifestations of underlying malignancy such as systemic vasculitis, non bacterial endocarditis and DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy). Efforts to find the source of malignancy was unsuccessful and due to patient's unwillingness for further evaluation, finally under the diagnosis of metastatic disease of unknown primary, patient is receiving cyclic chemotherapy.
publisher Tehran University of Medical Sciences
publishDate 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3913154/
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