Orbital venous vasculitis has earlier been shown to be associated with spontaneous ecchymoses. With the reservation that platelet function was not investigated and fibrinolysis only partly, this study of the coagulation factors of eight patients with orbital venous vasculitis showed normal findings, suggesting immunologic etiology rather than coagulation deficiency as the cause of the spontaneous ecchymoses.
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