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hypersensitivity vasculitis (medicine)


hypersensitivity vasculitis -->
cutaneous vasculitis


An acute form of vasculitis which may affect the skin only, but also may involve other organs, with a polymorphonuclear infiltrate in the walls of and surrounding small (dermal) vessels. Nuclear fragments are formed by karyorrhexis of the neutrophils.

See: leukocytoclastic vasculitis.

Synonym: allergic angiitis, hypersensitivity vasculitis.