Degos disease in association with rheumatoid arthritis in a young boy

Degos' disease (malignant atrophic papulosis) is an occlusive arteriopathy involving small-caliber vessels. specifically, it is a progressive, small- and medium-size arterial occluding disease, leading to tissue infarction and initially involving the skin. the disease occurs both in a limited benign, cutaneous form and in a lethal multiorgan, systemic variant. we report an 11-year-old boy who has degos' disease. we diagnosed him on the clinical and histological ground