1. The Case | A 69-year-old-woman with polyuria.
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Kang, Ji Hyoun, Choi, Yoo Duk, Kim, Chang Seong, Choi, Joon Seok, Bae, Eun Hui, Ma, Seong Kwon, and Kim, Soo Wan
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POLYURIA , *KNEE pain , *HYDRONEPHROSIS , *COMPUTED tomography , *MAGNETIC resonance imaging , *IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY , *DIAGNOSIS - Abstract
The article presents a case study of a 69-year-old woman with polyuria and bilateral knee pain. The patient undergo abdominal computed tomography (CT) which reveals bilateral hydronephrosis. Magnetic resonance imaging shows diffuse irregular sclerotic changes involving the diaphysis and metaphysic. Immunohistochemistry discovered that biopsy samples were CD68(+), but S-100(-) and CD1a(-), which is a distinctive finding in Erdheim-Chester disease.
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- 2013
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