A case of early recurrent polychondritis with 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging

VernacularTitle:早期复发性多软骨炎 18F-FDG PET/CT显像1例
Author: Zhongying RUI ¹ ; Kaiyue CAO ; Yue LI ; Dongyan LU ; Jie SHEN
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1. 天津市第一中心医院核医学科，天津　300110
Keywords: Recurrent polychondritis; Hormones; Tripterygium glycoside tablets
From: Clinical Medicine of China 2024;40(3):219-222
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Relapsing polychondritis is a rare systemic autoimmune disease, which involves a wide range of sites, has atypical symptoms, and has no specific means of examination, resulting in very difficult early diagnosis, which seriously affects the prognosis of patients. We report a case of an elderly female patient with respiratory symptoms, discomfort symptoms only appeared for more than 1 month, chest CT and laryngoscopy showed no obvious abnormalities. The effect of antibacterial, antiviral and anti-inflammatory treatment is not good. 18F-FDG PET/CT showed that trachea, bronchus, nasal cartilage, thyroid cartilage, cricoid cartilage were involved. After pathological examination, the patient was clinically diagnosed as relapsing polychondritis. After treatment with methylprednisolone and tripterygium glycoside tablets, the patient had no recurrence at present.