Figure 2. This biopsy of a gastrocnemius muscle in another patient, a 69-year-old man with MPA depicts diagnostic changes of intense inflammatory infiltrate and destruction of the blood vessel wall within the muscle.
MPA, microscopic polyangiitis
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