title: Successful steroid treatment for fibrosing mediastinitis and sclerosing cervicitis.
abstract: The use of steroids to successfully treat a 75-year-old woman with fibrosing mediastinitis and sclerosing cervicitis causing a stricture of the left common carotid artery is reported. Biopsy specimens showed collagenous fibers and fibroblasts with moderate infiltration of lymphocytes. The mediastinal and neck lesions were significantly reduced, with almost complete resolution of arterial stricture, 3 months after initiating administration of prednisolone at 20 mg/d.
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Koei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nomori
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Hironori
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Kazunori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iwatani
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshimoto
authors.forename: Masakazu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yoshioka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002340:Carotid Artery Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D017536:Carotid Artery, Common; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D005355:Fibrosis; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012598:Sclerosis; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D002575:Uterine Cervicitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D005938:Glucocorticoids; D011239:Prednisolone