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Case No : 520 Date 2007-10-15

  • Courtesy of Jung Im Jung, MD. / St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea.
  • Age/Sex 35 / M
  • Chief ComplaintDyspnea
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Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

Diagnosis
Relapsing Polychondritis
Radiologic Findings
Axial images through the upper, mid, and lobar bronchus, respectively show typical appearance of diffuse, uniform tracheal and bronchial wall thickening with sparing of the posterior membranous wall of the trachea and bronchi. Areas of dense calcium deposition within the thickened tracheobronchial cartilage are seen.
Brief Review
Please refer to
Case 432,
References
Keywords
Airway, Airway disease including COPD, Relapsing polycondritis,

No. of Applicants : 53

▶ Correct Answer : 13/53,  24.5%
  • - Registrar in Radiology, UHL NHS Trust, UK A. Donuru
  • - Osaka University, Japan Osamu Honda
  • - Jiangsu Province Official Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China Dong Sheng Jin
  • - Dept. of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India Ram Prakash Galwa
  • - Armidale Radiology, Australia Saurabh Khandelwal
  • - Pittwater Radiology, Australia Julie Arora
  • - E-Da hospital, Taiwan Yu-Feng Wei
  • - Lilavati Hospital & Rsearch Centre, Mumbai, India Mahavir Swami
  • - Nassau, Bahamas Trupti Dabholkar
  • - Hospital Sotiria, Athens, Greece Vasilios Tzilas
  • - Annecy hospital, France Gilles Genin
  • - Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Korea Sang Hyun Park
  • - Max Hospital, New Delhi, India Vickrant Malhotra
▶ Correct Answer as Differential Diagnosis : 20/53,  37.7%
  • - Dept. of radiology, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Korea Bae Geun Oh
  • - Shiga University of Medical, Japan Norihisa Nitta
  • - Regional Imaging Riverina, Australia Rashid Hashmi
  • - Korea Dae Yun Kim
  • - Nour El-Islam Radiology Center Egypt, Alexandria Elsayed Mousa
  • - Samsung medical center, Korea Young A Bae
  • - Pune, India Rahul Deshmukh
  • - UCLA, California, USA Fereidoun Abtin
  • - IRSA La Rochelle, France Jean-Luc BIGOT
  • - Jackson Memorial Hospital, Florida, USA N.B.S.Mani
  • - Annemasse, Polyclinique De Savoie, France Gay-Depassier Philippe
  • - CHU Grenoble, France Bing Fabrice
  • - Armed Forces ChunCheon Hospital (AFCC), Korea Chae Hun Lim
  • - Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, Korea Eil Seong Lee
  • - Homs National Hospital, Homs - Syria Rami Abou Zalaf
  • - Yongsan Hospital, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Korea Jae Seung Seo
  • - IRSA, La Rochelle, France Denis Chabassiere
  • - Vital imaging centre, Mumbai, India Ganesh Agrawal
  • - Ultra Care, Coimbatore, India Debabrata Das
  • - Aims, New Delhi, India Ashish Gupta
▶ Semi-Correct Answer : 12/53,  22.6%
  • - Trakya University Edirne Turkey Armagan Sarac
  • - Kasturba Medical Collage, Manipal, Karnataka, India Naveen M Kulkarni
  • - Trakya University School of Medicine, Turkey Mustafa Kemal Demir
  • - Malald and Apollo Clinic, Kandivali, Mumbai, India Jeshil R. Shah
  • - Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun Turkey Cetin Celenk
  • - Sultunate of oman, Ibra hospital, Oman Shaker Abd Fadeel Omera
  • - Clinic 1, Moscow, Russia Lepikhina Dasha
  • - Derby hospital nhs trust, derby, UK Greg Ramjas
  • - Gimpo Woori Hospital, Korea Son Youl Lee
  • - Yashodha Hospital, Hyderabad, India Satishbabu. Maddukuri
  • - Department of radiology, Kangbuk samsung hospital, Korea Kang Pyeong Guk
  • - EKH-Berlin, Germany Michael Weber
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