RT Journal
T1 HYpertensive pulmonary arteritis
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD November 10
VO 210
IS 6
SP 1095
OP 1096
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03160320077022
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160320077022
AB For years the group of disorders generally referred to as the necrotizing angiitides have been a source of confusion to both pathologists and clinicians. The lesions can have many forms, produce a host of different symptoms, and can accompany a variety of apparently unrelated clinical conditions.Since "periarteritis nodosa" was first described by Kussmaul and Maier in 1866,1 the meaning of the term has changed considerably. A subsequent proliferation of reports has broadened and somewhat obscured the original definition, so that today the term periarteritis nodosa, or "polyarteritis nodosa," is applied rather loosely by some as a histologic description to many necrotizing arterial lesions, while it is reserved by others for a clinical syndrome of which the arterial lesions are a feature. Perhaps the most widely used terminology currently applied to the angiitides is that proposed by Zeek in 1952,2 though there are many cases which cannot wholly