Digital vasculitis after splenectomy in a patient with Felty's syndrome.

AUTOR(ES)

Comer, M

RESUMO

The case is reported of a man with Felty's syndrome in whom digital cutaneous vasculitis developed after a splenectomy. This may be a coincidental occurrence but a possible mechanism is suggested by which the splenectomy may have modified the immunopathology of the disease.

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