Abstract
Cutaneous vasculitides are vasculitis in which the skin involvement is more predominant than the systemic involvement. Leukocytoc-lastic vasculitis, urticarial vasculitis, and cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa can be classified under this heading. Vasculitis including, Ka-wasaki disease, cryoglobulinemic vasculitis, Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, polyarteritis nodosa and microscopic polyangiitis are characterized by prevalent systemic involvement while exhibiting some degree of skin manifestations. While the skin involvement is the dominant manifestation of Henoch-Schönlein purpura, it is not uncommon to see patients with joint, gastrointestinal, and renal involvement which necessitates treatment as similar to systemic vasculitis. Leukocytoclastic angiitis, which can be cate-gorized under the heading of idiopathic cutaneous vasculitis usually occurs once in a time and follows a self-limited course. On the ot-her hand, self-limited, recurrent chronic urticarial attacks lasting about 24 hours is typical feature of urticarial vasculitis. Contrary to the-se, cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa follows a chronic course with recurrent attacks which leads to severe skin manifestations and making treatment a bit difficult. However, prognosis of cutaneous vasculitis is usually considered as good.
Keywords: Leukocytoclastic vasculitiıs, urticarial vasculitis, cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa
