Imaging assessment of periaortic inflammation in Erdheim-Chester disease
2013
Reaching etiologic diagnoses for retroperitoneal fibrosis may be challenging. We report the case of a 75-year old male with history of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm and subsequent retroperitoneal fibrosis who developed four years later a soft tissue infiltration surrounding the ascending thoracic aorta. Thanks to his medical records and multimodality imaging assessment, the patient escaped an open-chest biopsy through histolgical reassessment of the abdominal periaortic samples that allowed the definitive diagnosis of Erdheim-Chester disease, a rare non-Langerhans histiocytosis. Copyright © 2013 Science International Corp.
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