[Relation of radiographic and clinical findings to the pathomorphological changes in Wegener's granulomatosis]

On the basis of two own observations the clinical and radiological routine methods undergo a critical judgment concerning their valency for the diagnosis of Wegener's granulomatosis. The two patients showed the picture of a severe septical disease with high fever and expressed inflammatory changes of the biological reactions. In the first observation a pulmonary round focus and terminally the renal failure, in the second case severe inflammatory changes of the lungs without response to antibiotic therapy were in the foreground. The appearance of this disease as generalized vasculitis is conditioned by the manifold clinical symptomatology and thus renders the diagnostics extraordinarily difficult. The simultaneous affection of the nasopharyngeal space, of the lung and the kidneys may be a guide for the diagnosis. The X-ray findings of the lung are not able to found sufficiently the diagnosis.