What skin lesions are suggestive of vasculitis

What skin lesions are suggestive of vasculitis?

  • • Medium-vessel vasculitis: subcutaneous nodules, “punched-out” skin ulcers, livedo reticularis, digital gangrene.
  • • Small-vessel vasculitis: palpable purpura, splinter hemorrhages, hemorrhagic macules, vesiculobullous lesions, and urticaria lasting >24 hours.

A) Palpable purpura.

(B) Livedo reticularis.

(C) Digital infarction.

(D) “Punched-out” ulcer.

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