| 1. | Affects medium and small vessels with vascular and extravascular granulomatosis.
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| 2. | An earlier name for the disease was " pathergic granulomatosis ".
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| 3. | Examples include giant cell arteritis, microscopic polyangiitis, and granulomatosis with polyangiitis.
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| 4. | It is most commonly due to granulomatosis with polyangiitis or Goodpasture's syndrome.
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| 5. | It is sometimes considered to be part of a spectrum with granulomatosis with polyangiitis.
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| 6. | The disease is still sometimes confused with lethal midline granuloma and lymphomatoid granulomatosis, both malignant lymphomas.
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| 7. | Much less common causes for perforated nasal septums include rare granulomatous inflammatory conditions like granulomatosis with polyangiitis.
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| 8. | Granulomatosis with polyangiitis usually presents with nasopharyngeal involvement as well, whereas Goodpasture's will not.
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| 9. | This condition is now called " eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis " to remove all eponyms from the vasculitides.
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| 10. | Even highly unusual conditions, such as the inflammatory disease Wegener's Granulomatosis, have an Internet presence.
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