Wegener granulomatosis masquerading as pneumonia.

گزارش یک مورد سندرم گرانولوماتوز وگنر ( Wegener Granulomatosis )

Unilateral eyelid edema and mucosal involvement as the first presentations of Wegener granulomatosis

Background: Wegener granulomatosis or granulomatosis with polyangiitis is a pauci-immune small vessel vasculitis which is usually associated with anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) mainly in old men. This small vessel vasculitis is usually characterized by necrotizing granulomatous inflammation with multiorgan involvement. Kidneys could be involved as the main and life-threatening co...

Wegener Granulomatosis with Oral Involvement as Primary Manifestation: A Case Study

Introduction: Wegener Granulomatosis is a rare multisystemic disease with an unknown cause, characterized by necrotic granulomatous lesions in respiratory tract, systemic vasculitis in small arteries and veins and necrotizing glomerulonephritis. Wegener can affect any organ including kidneys, eyes or other organs but classically affects upper and lower respiratory tract. One of the rare but imp...

Wegener granulomatosis--rare case presentation.

Wegener granulomatosis is often misdiagnosed as pneumonia and most common cause for bilateral lung infiltrates' are bacterial, viral, pneumocystis jiroveci infection. We describe a 35 year old female with 15 days history of nasal obstruction, breathlessness and fever. Investigations in this patient revealed chronic necrotizing vasculitic and granulomatous lesion in nasal biopsy, vasculitic pauc...

Wegener granuloma in the fourth ventricle.

We report the case of a 57-year-old man with a known history of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-positive Wegener granulomatosis with initial involvement of the upper and lower respiratory tract. MR imaging of the brain was performed because of new onset CNS symptoms (nausea, altered mental status). The images revealed a mass in the fourth ventricle. The mass diminished in size after systemi...