A 45-year-old woman treated with low-dose glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide for Wegener granulomatosis was referred for fever, cough and infiltrate of the right lung. Percutaneous lung aspiration yielded Aspergillus fumigatus whereas bronchoscopy was nondiagnostic. Antifungal chemotherapy led to a ...
Certaines formes anatomocliniques sont actuellement du domaine de l’exception : miliaire aiguë du pharynx, lupus du pharynx en dehors de quelques pays à forte endémie tuberculeuse [5], [6], [7]. Le diagnostic de la tuberculose a largement bénéficié des techniques modernes de biologi...
Since a few years, the medical thoracoscopy has already been used specially for the diagnostic and therapeutic taking up of the pleural pathology. Behind it, the video-assisted thoracic surgery has been improved since 1990. As a surgical technology, it proved its interest refering to the ...
Head and neck biopsies usually have a low diagnostic value in Wegener's granulomatosis (WG). On the basis of 49 biopsies obtained from 21 WG patients at diagnosis from various sites, i.e. nose (29), paranasal sinus (7), oral cavity (4), larynx (4), conjunctiva (3) and external ...
Ostéonécrose maxillaire bilatérale, diagnostic différentiel de la maladie de Wegener et de la maladie de GorhamTo describe the clinical features, biological datas and outcome of patients with systemic sarcoidosis and splenomegaly. A retrospective analysis of 17 patients presenting splenomegaly and ...
Wegener granulomatosisBreast tumorAnti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodyANCA vasculitis may involve the skin and develop slowly without specific histology, and without autoantibodies. We report a 50-year-old woman who experienced bilateral mastectomy because of ulcero-necrotic, non-specific inflammatory ...