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Limited form of Churg-Strauss syndrome presenting as a mass in the neck

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

J. W. Moor
Affiliation:
Department of ENT Surgery, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK.
J. U-King Im
Affiliation:
Departments of General Surgery, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK.
A. W. MacDonald
Affiliation:
Department of Histopathology, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK.
E. Whitehead
Affiliation:
Department of ENT Surgery, Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, UK.

Abstract

A 53-year-old man was referred to the ENT department with a large mass in the left supraclavicular fossa. The histological diagnosis showed the mass to have arisen due to a granulomatous vasculitis consistent with Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS). CSS usually comprises asthma, eosinophilia and systemic vasculitis although limited forms of the disease exist where one of these diagnostic criteria is missing. This is one such case as the patient was non-asthmatic.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2002

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