Systemic Vasculitis Imaging Features

Systemic Vasculitis Imaging Features / edited by Lotfi Hendaoui, Anthony W. Stanson, M. Habib Bouhaouala, Francis Joffre.

Vasculitis is a clinicopathologic process characterized by inflammation of and damage to blood vessels. Vessels of any type and size in any organ can be affected, resulting in a wide range of signs and symptoms. While patients with systemic vasculitis are relatively uncommon in vascular practice, a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hendaoui, Lotfi (Editor), Stanson, Anthony W. (Editor), Bouhaouala, M. Habib (Editor), Joffre, Francis (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:Diagnostic Imaging
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Radiology.
Angiology.
Internal medicine.
Vascular surgery.
Cardiology.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Section I: Systemic Vasculitis: Historical Background
  • Nomenclature and Current Classifications
  • Anatomy and Histopathology.-Immunology
  • Medical Imaging Methods (Procedures)
  • Diagnostic and Therapeutic (Approach) Principles
  • Section II: Involving Predominatly Large Vessels: Giant Cell Arteritis
  • Takayasu’s Arteritis.-Cogan Syndrom
  • Behçet’s Disease
  • Section III: Vasculitis Involving Predominatly MediumVessels: Polyarteritis Nodosa
  • Thrombo-Angiitis Obliterans (Buerger’s Disease)
  • Kawasaki Disease
  • Central Nervous System Primitive Angiitis.-Mesenteric Inflammatory Veno-Occlusive Disease
  • Section IV: Vasculitis Involving Predominatly Small Vessels: Wegener’ Granulomatosis
  • Henoch-Schönlein Purpura.-Churg-Strauss Syndrom
  • Section V: Secondary Vasculitis (Associated Disease): Vasculitis Associated with Connective Tissue Disease (SLE, R.A.)
  • Vasculitis Associated with Infection, Other Inflammatory Disease and Iatrogenic Disease
  • Section VI: Auto Evaluation: Test
  • Clinical Cases.

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