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Visual Field Defects in a Patient with Polyarteritis Nodosa
Neuro-Ophthalmology, 10/12/09

Lam DKT et al. – Polyarteritis Nodosa is a multi–system necrotizing vasculitis which predominantly affects small and medium–sized arteries. Complications of this disease involving the central nervous system are rare and prompt more stringent monitoring and treatment. The authors report a patient with Polyarteritis nodosa first presented at an ophthalmology clinic with visual field defects. Subsequent computer tomography showed occipital infarct secondary to cerebral vasculitis.

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