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[Relapsing polychondritis: apropos a case with significant tracheal involvement]
S Marcos Pérez1, B Alvarez Lario, J Alegre López
1Servicio de ORL, Hospital General Yagüe de Burgos.
Acta Otorrinolaringologica Espanola
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Relapsing polychondritis is an infrequently recognized disease. Its etiology is unknown. It is characterized by recurrent and potentially destructive inflammatory lesions involving cartilaginous structures, the cardiovascular system and some sensory organs. We report a patient with important tracheal stenosis, vestibulo cochlear dysfunction and polyarthritis. We present a literature review.