[Acute facial swelling, pruritus].
This patient developed facial edema with impressive swelling of the inferior lip within a few hours. He had experienced several episodes with transient, itching swelling at diverse sites over the past six months. This history and the rapid disappearance of symptoms after intravenous corticoids were suggestive of Quincke's edema. Since testing for possible causes remained unsuccessful idiopathic Quincke's edema was diagnosed.
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D000328:Adult; D000799:Angioedema / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005148:Facial Dermatoses / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011537:Pruritus / Q000209:etiology*
Akute Gesichtsschwellung, Pruritus.