Your browser version may not work well with NCBI's Web applications. More information here...
1: Laryngoscope. 2006 Apr;116(4):663-4.Click here to read Links

Subglottic stenosis in Erdheim-Chester disease: a previously unrecognized site of involvement.

Freed GL, Sinacori JT.

Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, USA.

We describe a case of laryngeal stenosis secondary to an etiology not previously described. A patient with Erdheim-Chester disease presented with airway obstruction and was found to have subglottic stenosis. Biopsy results confirmed Erdheim-Chester nodules as the cause of the obstruction. This case illustrates the need for biopsy to rule out malignancy and less common etiologies of subglottic stenosis.

PMID: 16585877 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]