title: Non-healing granulomas of the nose.
abstract: Our knowledge and understanding of non-healing granulomas of the nose are from complete. The classification and etiology remain in on-going controversy. This article describes an uncommon case of Wegener's granulomatosis in childhood presenting with granulomatous involvement of the nose and orbit. A review of the literature is made with regard to non-healing granulomatous disease of the nose and some of the controversies in classification are pointed out.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006103:Granuloma, Lethal Midline / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D014890:Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans