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Olgu Sunumu: Tekrarlayan Polikondrit

Tekrarlayan polikondrit, kıkırdak ve bağ dokunun destrüksiyonu ve inflamasyonu ile seyreden nadir kronik otoimmün bir hastalıktır. Hastalığın klinik özellikleri aurikuler, nasal ve trakeal kartilajın kondritini;odyovestibüler disfonksiyonu; oküler inflamasyonu; vasküliti; myokarditi ve non-eroziv artriti içermektedir. Bu makalede otolarengoloji kliniğimize her iki kulakta ağrı, ödem, eritem şikayetleri ile başvuran 54 yaşında bayan hasta sunuldu.

Case Report: Relapsing Polychondritis

Relapsing polychondritis is a rare chronic autoimmune systemic disease that presents with destruction and inflammation of cartilaginous and connective tissues. Clinical features of the disease include chondritis of the auricular, nasal, and tracheal cartilages; audiovestibular dysfunction; ocular inflammation; vasculitis; myocarditis and nonerosive arthritis. In this paper a 54-year-old woman who presented to our otolaryngology clinic with complaints of pain, eritema, edema on both auricules are reported.

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