These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Refractory periorbital edema in a 29-year-old man.
    Author: Li JT, Garrity JA, Kephart GM, Gleich GJ.
    Journal: Ann Allergy; 1992 Aug; 69(2):101-5. PubMed ID: 1510283.
    Abstract:
    A 29-year-old man developed periorbital edema which was initially diagnosed as angioedema. Further clinical investigation by orbital CT and orbital biopsy showed this to be orbital pseudotumor. Immunofluorescence staining for major basic protein clearly demonstrated tissue eosinophilia and extracellular major basic protein deposition. Orbital pseudotumor can mimic angioedema or allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and should be familiar to allergists and primary care physicians. The demonstration of striking extracellular major basic protein in biopsy specimen implicates a role for eosinophils in the pathogenesis of this disease.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]