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Features:
Features:
*Inflammatory cells (neutrophils, lymphocytes) within the tunica media.
*Inflammatory cells (neutrophils, lymphocytes) within the tunica media.
*Necrosis: dead vessel wall - pink anucleate stuff, nuclear debris (black specks of nuclear material).
*Fibroid necrosis: dead vessel wall - pink anucleate stuff, nuclear debris (black specks of nuclear material).
 
Image: [http://www.immunologyclinic.com/figure.asp?chap=10&fig=14-05d PAN (immunologyclinic.com)].


==Wegener's granulomatosis==
==Wegener's granulomatosis==