Internal Medicine
Online ISSN : 1349-7235
Print ISSN : 0918-2918
ISSN-L : 0918-2918
Polyarteritis Nodosa (PN) Complicated with Unilateral Exophthalmos
Ryuji KOIKEMasahito YAMADATakashi MATSUNAGAShoji YOSHIDAHiroshi TSUKAGOSHI
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1993 Volume 32 Issue 3 Pages 232-236

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A 58-year-old woman suddenly developed right exophthalmos. A CT scan of her orbit revealed an increase in volume and density of extraocular muscles and intraorbital soft tissues that resembled exophthalmos in Graves' disease. The exophthalmos gradually improved without treatment. Two months later she developed mononeuritis multiplex in her limbs, and then showed a sudden onset of swelling of her right calf. Sural nerve biopsy was performed and the diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa (PN) was established from the histological findings. A rare case of PN with exophthalmos is herein reported with a review of the literature.
(Internal Medicine 32: 232-236, 1993)

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