Relapsing Polychondritisの1例
1981 年 24 巻 1 号 p. 23-29,2
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1981 年 24 巻 1 号 p. 23-29,2
A case of relapsing polychondritis in a 60-year-old man is reported. The initial symptoms of the diease were redness and swelling of the left auricle associated with fever.
Subsequently seen were headache, ophthalmalgia, injection of the conjunctivae, exophthalmos, vertigo and tinnitus.
Left mastoidectomy revealed mild inflammatory changes of the mastoid cavity without any serious changes.
The patient later developed swelling of the auricle of the opposite side, laryngeal cartilage and the xihoid process.
