Periarteritis Nodosa: Our Present Knowledge of the Disease

Article1 October 1944PERIARTERITIS NODOSA: OUR PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE DISEASEMARSH MCCALL, JOHN WINTHROP PENNOCKMARSH MCCALLSearch for more papers by this author, JOHN WINTHROP PENNOCKSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-21-4-628 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn these days of chaos it may be stimulating to turn from subjects relating to war to a topic which dates from 1866, when Kussmaul and Maier1observed their first patient with arteritis. In their classical protocol a description of periarteritis nodosa is given in a patient who had enteritis, nephritis, and neuritis. In 1939 Harris, Lynch, and O'Hare2reviewed a total of 101 cases of periarteritis nodosa which had been reported in the English literature up to that date. 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To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Read at the Columbus meeting of the American College of Physicians, May 14, 1943.From the Medical and Pathological Services of the Ashford General Hospital, West Virginia.†We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dr. Margaret Bevans of Bellevue Hospital, New York City, and Lieutenant William R. Randall of Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D. C., in the preparation of the pathological data.‡Personal Communication, Colonel James E. Ash, Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. 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