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. 2014 Sep 7;8:297. doi: 10.1186/1752-1947-8-297

Table 1.

Locations and forms of GPA presentation

Site Presentations Frequency of disease occurrence at site throughout disease course (%)
Upper airway [1],[2]
Oral or nasal ulcers, strawberry gums, strawberry tongue, unresponsive upper respiratory tract or ear ‘infections’ , otitis, vestibular nerve injury, conductive or sensorineural deafness
92
Lower airways [1],[2]
Subglottic stenosis, pulmonary nodular infiltrates, pulmonary hemorrhage ‘ground-glass’ infiltrations, pleurisy
85
Kidneys [1],[3]
Rapidly progressing glomerulonephritis - necrotizing
80
Musculoskeletal [1,2]
Myalgias, migratory pauciarticular or polyarticular arthritis, arthralgias
67
Eye [1],[2],[4]
Scleritis, episcleritis, orbital pseudotumor, proptosis, dacrocystis
52
Skin [1],[2]
Palpable purpura, ulcers, leucocytoclastic vasculitis, subcutaneous nodules, gangrene
46
Nervous system [1],[2]
Peripheral neuropathy, mononeuritis multiplex, cranial neuropathy, meningitis
20
Additional rare presentations [2],[3] Myocarditis, pericarditis, cerebral vasculitis, mass lesions (brain, renal, lung, orbit, breast, prostate, ovary, parotid)