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The classification of vasculitis has been an area of controversy for many years, with specific classification criteria only introduced relatively recently. Kussmaul and Maier [1] provided the first description of “periarteritis nodosa” when they described a patient with a systemic illness characterized by numerous nodules along the course of small muscular arteries.
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Watts, R.A., Scott, D.G.I., Mukhtyar, C. (2015). Classification and Epidemiology. In: Vasculitis in Clinical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14871-7_2
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