RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Digital vasculitis after splenectomy in a patient with Felty's syndrome.
JF Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
JO Ann Rheum Dis
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism
SP 908
OP 909
DO 10.1136/ard.51.7.908
VO 51
IS 7
A1 Comer, M
A1 Bucknall, R C
YR 1992
UL http://ard.bmj.com/content/51/7/908.abstract
AB 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.