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Case Reports
. 2020 Jan 15;3(1):75-77.
doi: 10.31662/jmaj.2019-0045. Epub 2019 Oct 10.

Relapsing Polychondritis

Daisuke Taniyama  1 , Taketomo Maruki  1 , Tetsuya Sakai  2
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Case Reports

Relapsing Polychondritis

Daisuke Taniyama et al. JMA J. .
No abstract available

Keywords: airway obstruction; bronchoscopy; relapsing polychondritis.

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Figures

Figure 1 a, b.
Figure 1 a, b.
Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed thickening of the tracheal and bilateral bronchial tube walls.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Bronchoscopy showed remarkable redness of the bronchial mucosa, and white lesions were observed except in the membranous portion.
Figure 3 a, b.
Figure 3 a, b.
Tracheal biopsy revealed acute infiltration of various inflammatory cells mainly composed of neutrophils and eosinophils in the tracheal mucosa and inflammatory exudate precipitation and myxomatous change in the subepithelial tissue, compatible with relapsing polychondritis in low-power field (a) and in high-power field (b).
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References

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