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Yukawa S et al. - A 63-year-old woman, who had been followed for Sjögren's syndrome, was admitted due to cryoglobulinemia, leukocytoclastic vasculitis, and mononeuritis multiplexa. In spite of the administration of 60 mg prednisolone, fecal occult blood was strongly positive. The colonoscopy showed multiple colonic ulcers, and a diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) was made because abdominal angiography revealed markedly serpentine and narrowed superior and inferior mesenteric arteries. After steroid pulse therapy and daily oral administration of cyclophosphamide were initiated, her symptoms improved and abdominal angiographic findings were finally normalized.
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