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Mycotic aneurysm of the aortic arch masquerading as systemic lupus erythematosus.
  1. K Chakravarty,
  2. D G Scott
  1. Department of Rheumatology, Norfolk Norwich Hospital, United Kingdom.

    Abstract

    The case is described of a patient with mycotic aneurysm of the aortic arch whose clinical and serological features were indistinguishable from those of systemic lupus erythematosus. Surgical resection and repair of the aneurysm resolved her clinical symptoms and the serological abnormalities.

    https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.51.9.1079

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