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A 56-year-old man presented with hyperproteinemia and renal dysfunction associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA). He had had a ventriculoperitoneal shunt tube made of silicone implanted 4 years earlier. In his renal biopsy, necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis was identified: tests for both myeloperoxidase ANCA and proteinase 3 ANCA were initially weakly positive. Antinuclear and other autoantibodies were also present. We diagnosed ANCA-associated vasculitis, probably induced by the silicone tube.
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Received: December 19, 2001 / Accepted: June 11, 2002
Correspondence to:M. Mukai
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Bohgaki, M., Mukai, M., Notoya, A. et al. Vasculitis following implantation of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt tube made of silicone. Mod Rheumatol 13, 0073–0075 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s101650300011
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s101650300011