Concept information
Preferred term
vasculitis
Definition
- The term vasculitis literally means inflammation of the walls of blood vessels. Vasculitides include a spectrum of diseases with variable causative factors and features which are classified on the basis of site and type of blood vessels involved. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Vasculitis]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- aortitis
- arteritis
- Behcet syndrome
- Cogan syndrome
- malignant atrophic papulosis
- mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome
- phlebitis
- purpura, schoenlein-henoch
- retinal vasculitis
- shwartzman phenomenon
- systemic vasculitis
- thromboangiitis obliterans
- vasculitis, central nervous system
- vasculitis, leukocytoclastic, cutaneous
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/vasculitis
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