Central nervous system angiitis

the long version

Discusses what the author perceives as widespread misconceptions concerning angiitis and the central nervous system (e.g., the belief that the CNS manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus are caused by angiitis and misplaced confidence in catheter angiography as a sensitive and specific means of diagnosis). He cites many cases (there are 578 end notes) in chapters covering clinical aspects, pathology, pathogenesis, and diagnosis and therapy of isolated CNS angiitis; CNS angiitis associated with lymphoma, sarcoid, giant cell arteritis, and amyloid; polyarteritis nodosa and systemic necrotizing vasculitis; and CNS angiitis in other connective tissue and inflammatory disorders, in selected infectious diseases, associated with drug abuse, and in Behcet's Disease and other disorders of the eye.