Historia de las vasculitis primarias en Latinoamérica

in this paper an extensive review about primary vasculitis and latino american information that appears referenced in the most important world wide data bases in english, spanish and portuguese from 1945 to september 2007, is compiled. several contacts with rheumatologist or physician interested in this topic were made. also secondary searches of the studies that appeared mentioned in selected articles were made and the abstracts of congresses were reviewed manually.