COSTAL CHONDRITIS

[Bilateral chondritis of the ears].

A 68-year-old male patient was admitted to the internal medicine department due to a 10 kg weight loss in a 6 month period. This was accompanied by night sweating and red spots on the arms and legs which were painful, lingered on for several days and disappeared leaving a hyperpigmented lesion. The patient had also been constipated for a month before his admission. He had no history of contact ...

Osteo-chondritis of the lumbar spine.

Recurrent auricular chondritis and cartilage repair.

W e present a case of recurrent auricular chondritis, which developed after two injections of a luteinising hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) analogue buserelin combined with oral treatment of a pure antiandrogen bicalutamide (Casodex). The patient was treated successfully with a continuous moderate dose of corticosteroids together with azathioprine and methotrexate. Complete repair of the defo...

Lyme chondritis presenting as painless ear erythema.

Erythema of the ear lobe in the context of Lyme disease is caused by either borrelial lymphocytoma or localized erythema migrans. Here we present a case of chondritis limited to the ear cartilage caused by Lyme disease. The patient was treated with ceftriaxone with complete resolution of symptoms.

Nasal Deformity Due to Tuberculous Chondritis

Tuberculosis (TB) is a common disease worldwide. However, nasal TB is quite rare, and the diagnosis of nasal TB requires a high index of suspicion. The most common symptoms of this unusual presentation are nasal obstruction and nasal discharge. We present a case of nasal TB with involvement of the hard palate presenting with a chronically progressive nasal deformity and ulceration of the hard p...