The red hearing: swollen ear in a patient with ulcerative colitis

Relapsing polychondritis is a rare connective tissue disease of unknown etiology characterized by recurrent inflammation, degeneration and deformity of auricular cartilage. The autoimmune inflammation may also affect cartilage at other sites including nose, larynx, trachea and bronchi. Here, we pres...

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Main Authors: Paras Karmacharya, Ranjan Pathak, Pragya Shrestha, Richard Alweis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Greater Baltimore Medical Center 2014-07-01
Series:Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
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Online Access:http://www.jchimp.net/index.php/jchimp/article/download/24659/pdf_1