Acral purpuric plaques in a woman with asthma: A case of allergic granulomatosis angiitis

Allergic granulomatosis angiitis (AGA) is a rare systemic vasculitis of unk nown etiology. Most patients are adults in their third to fourth decade of life. The combination of asthma, eosinophilia, and necrotizing vasculitis i s almost invariably present. Cutaneous lesions are found in up to 70% of th e patients and include nodules, hemorrhagic lesions, and erythema multiform elike lesions. We provide a case report of a 30-year-old woman with asthma who presented with acral purpuric plaques and was diagnosed with AGA.