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Relapsing polychondritis is purported to be an autoimmune disease characterized by inflammation of cartilaginous structures including the nose, ears, glottis, trachea, and mainstem bronchi. Arthropathy, aortopathy, scleritis, conjunctivitis, iritis, vertigo, otitis media, glomerulonephritis, and skin lesions are common manifestations. We have recently cared for an elderly nonsmoker with a history of abdominal aortic aneurysm repair and recurrent bouts of painful ear swelling who presented with a pulmonary infiltrate and pulmonary function studies suggestive of small airways disease. Subsequent transbronchial biopsy revealed no pathogens but was associated with excessive bleeding, perhaps suggestive of a vasculitic process in the lung. The pulmonary infiltrate cleared over a 2-month interval with the use of corticosteroids. Unusual in this otherwise classical case of relapsing polychondritis was that the pulmonary infiltrate and small airways disease were the prominent pulmonary manifestations and no tracheobronchial abnormalities were visualized.
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PMID:Relapsing polychondritis: new pulmonary manifestations. 157 23

In a patient already operated for abdominal aortic aneurysm fifteen months previously, because of the onset of aspecific vertigo, instrumental investigations of the supra aortic vessels showed us the presence of a non palpable mass, in the left side of the neck. Duplex Scanner, angio-CT and Angiography let us suspect the presence of an aneurysm located somewhere in the course of the thyrocervical trunk. At the operation the aneurysm, which we originally suspected to be a false and a possibly iatrogenic one, in the reality was a true aneurysm and was located at the termination of the thyrocervical trunk, just in the first segment of the inferior thyroid artery. The case is reported because of its rarity and the difficulties in the preoperative diagnosis.
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PMID:True aneurysm of the inferior thyroid artery. Case report and review of the literature. 852 70