Year: 1999 Vol. 65 Ed. 3 - (10º)
Relato de Casos
Pages: 260 to 264
Relapsing Polychondritis the Abcess Nasal.
Author(s):
Julio Rodrigues*;
Rosemary Malatesta Delegido**;
Cristina Madvorge MaziFinamore** ,
Lara Bento Coelho**.
Keywords: relapsing polychondritis, scleritis, arthritis, abscess
Abstract:
The authors describe a case in which a patient presented with a abscess of the nasal septum. This patient had her abscess drained and it reappeared with others differents symptoms, when a clinical diagnosis of relapsing polychondritis was done. Oral Prednisone was used as the first treatment. Unhappily, the patient did not improve and was getting worst. At this time ocular manifestations appeared and the patient was hospitalized and received sistemic corticoides Solu-Medrol.
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