Diagnosis of Churg-Strauss Syndrome Presented With Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report.
Dayun ParkHo-Jun LeeKwang-Hoon LeeBum-Sun KwonJin-Woo ParkKi Yeun NamKyoung Hwan LeePublished in: Annals of rehabilitation medicine (2017)
Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS) is a rare systemic vasculitis that affect small and medium-sized blood vessels and is accompanied by asthma, eosinophilia, and peripheral neuropathy. This report describes a case of a 52-year-old man who had a history of sinusitis, asthma, and thymus cancer and who had complained of bilateral lower extremity paresthesia and weakness for a month. Peripheral neuropathy was detected by electrodiagnostic studies. Resection of a mediastinal mass, which was diagnosed as thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma, was performed five months before his visit. After thymectomy, peripheral blood tests revealed a gradual increase in eosinophils. Two months after surgery, he was admitted to the hospital for dyspnea, and nodules of focal consolidation were found in his chest X-ray. One month later, pyoderma occurred in the right shin, and the skin biopsy showed extravascular eosinophilic infiltration. He was diagnosed with CSS after thymectomy, and we report a very rare case of CSS presented with thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma.
Keyphrases
- rare case
- peripheral blood
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- case report
- lung function
- ultrasound guided
- myasthenia gravis
- lymph node
- healthcare
- papillary thyroid
- allergic rhinitis
- high resolution
- magnetic resonance imaging
- computed tomography
- squamous cell
- single cell
- soft tissue
- fine needle aspiration
- mass spectrometry
- drug induced
- electronic health record