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A Case of Polyarteritis Nodosa with Multiple Infarcts in the Lungs

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1 A Case of Polyarteritis Nodosa with Multiple Infarcts in the Lungs
S. SOCHOCKY, M.D.  Diseases of the Chest  Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages (September 1957) DOI: /chest Copyright © 1957 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 X-ray film of chest taken August 9, 1955 shows rounded opacities in both upper and mid zones of both lungs with fluid in the left. base. Diseases of the Chest  , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 1957 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 X-ray film taken August 20, 1955 shows rounded opacities seen in film taken on August 9, 1955 still present; clear costophrenic angle but with pleural fluid in the right base. Diseases of the Chest  , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 1957 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

4 Figure 3 Low-power view of a pulmonary infarct (× 2.5). The infarct is the sharply defined dark, sub-pleural area. It is covered by thickened pleura, has a necrotic centre and on its pulmonary aspect a zone of polymorphonuclear infiltration. The underlying lung features patchy pneumonia and oedema. (H and E stain.) Diseases of the Chest  , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 1957 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

5 Figure 4 High power view (× 130) of an acute disorganisation of a renal arteriole by fibrinoid necrosis and polymorphonuclear invasion of its wall; similar changes are present in other vessels of the same section. The capillary tufts of many glomeruli are also involved, see for example in corner of photograph. (H and E stain.) Diseases of the Chest  , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 1957 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions


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