Nomenklatur der kutanen Vaskulitiden – deutschsprachige Definitionen des Dermatologischen Anhanges zur Chapel Hill Consensus Conference

The nomenclature system agreed upon by the Chapel Hill Consensus Conference (CHCC) with respect to the terminology and precise definition of the various types of vasculitis has gained widespread interdisciplinary and international acceptance. As the revised version from 2012 (CHCC 2012) does not address the special features of vasculitis of the skin, it has recently been supplemented with an addendum containing the nomenclature of cutaneous vasculitides (D‐CHCC).

The present article provides the German translation of the terms and defintions of the D‐CHCC as well as additional explanatory comments. The goal is to enable German‐speaking health care providers to more readily apply these defined terms – which are based on interdisciplinary consensus – in everyday clinical practice and to facilitate assessment of their practicability and relevance in patient care.

If the majority of cutaneous vasculitides diagnosed can be matched with any of the defined entities presented herein, it might subsequently be possible to develop a classification system and diagnostic algorithms.