Intranasal eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis associated with an IgG4-related disease

Eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis is an uncommon tumefactive lesion of the ocular orbit and upper respiratory tract. We present a 44-year old man with a history of severe nasal congestion and nasal obstruction. The patient also reported symptoms of sinusitis. Submucous thickening tissue had been locally resected and the involved anterior nasal septum cartilage partially removed. Histopathological examination of the biopsy indicated eosinophilic angiocentric fibrosis. A CT scan of the sinuses showed a high-density focal mass of soft tissue arising from the anterior aspect of the nasal septum. Examination under low power view showed dense concentric fibrosis and mixed inflammatory cells. The fibrosis was in an angiocentric pattern, resembling an onionskin. High power view showed a mixture of lymphocytes, plasma cells, numerous eosinophils, and proliferating fibroblasts. A test for serum IgG performed ten years after the patient’s initial presentation was 1421 mg/dl (normal range 540–1822 mg/dl), and the serum concentration of IgG4 was 168.70 mg/dl (normal range 6.1–121 mg/dl). A review of the original hematoxylin and eosin-stained slides revealed that this case was stained immunohistochemically with an IgG4 stain showing 50 IgG4-positive plasma cells/HPF. © 2017 Asociación Colombiana de Reumatologı́a. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. All