[Sarcoidosis of the ethmoid sinus. Apropos of a case].
We report the case of a 78 year old man with unilateral persistent headache and associated bilateral kerato-conjunctivitis and minor skin lesions. Chronic ethmoiditis was diagnosed on a CT scan, and endoscopically controlled endonasal ethmoidal biopsy gave the diagnosis of sarcoid and hence the treatment. A nodular type isolated pulmonary lesion, atypical for sarcoidosis, also disappeared on steroid therapy. A review of the literature showed this to be an exceptionally rare form of the disease.
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Service ORL, CHU Dupuytren, Limoges.
Loustaud
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Bessede
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Sauvage
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Catanzano
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D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D015521:Ethmoid Sinusitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones