title: [Eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis and granuloma facial with extra facial presentation, the same pathology?].
abstract: Eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis is a rare fibro inflammatory lesion of unknown etiology which occurs usually in the upper respiratory tract mucosa of middle-aged adults. The histologic features show an eosinophilic vasculitis and an angiocentric fibrosis with onion-skin pattern. Firstly described as a mucosal variant of the granuloma facial, which is a rare cutaneous vasculitis with eosinophils, it is considerated by some authors as separated entities. Four cases have been described in the orbit and three of them were in fact an extension of a sinusal lesion. We report the first case affecting a 69-years-old male patient who showed an isolated orbital involvement in association with granuloma facial, extra facial. This observation illustrates the relationship between these two pathologies and consolidates the first hypothesis of a single disease with cutaneous or mucosal involvement.
authors: Service d'anatomie et de cytopathologie, centre hospitalier Lyon-Sud, 165, chemin du Grand-Revoyet, 69495 Pierre-Bénite, France.
authors: Lauriane
authors: L
authors: Depaepe
authors: Brigitte
authors: B
authors: Chouvet
authors: Alain
authors: A
authors: Claudy
authors: Luc
authors: L
authors: Thomas
authors: Françoise
authors: F
authors: Berger
authors: Brigitte
authors: B
authors: Balme
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002196:Capillaries / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005094:Exophthalmos / Q000209:etiology*; D005355:Fibrosis; D006099:Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008228:Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D009916:Orbital Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012008:Recurrence; D013909:Thorax; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D014680:Veins / Q000473:pathology