Another Look at Periureteral Fibrosis

Mulvaney, William P.; Gordon, Louis Z.; Gritti, Emil J.

doi:10.1016/s0022-5347(17)62724-1

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“…The coincidence of thyroid disease resembling Riedel's thyroiditis in case 3 recalls similar previous associations (Hache, Woolner, and Bernatz, 1962;Raphael, Beahrs, Woolner, and Scholz, 1966;Turner-Warwick, Nabarro, and Doniach, 1966;Comings et al, 1967;Mulvaney, Gordon, and Gritti, 1968;Ullman and Dacso, 1968). It is very difficult to explain the association, although the dissecting aneurysm and possible arteritis in the inferior thyroid artery in case 3 is an unusual finding.…”

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Aortic disease in idiopathic retroperitoneal and mediastinal fibrosis

Mitchinson

1972

J Clin Pathol

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In three patients with idiopathic mediastinal or retroperitoneal fibrosis, postmortem sections of the aorta showed aortitis (in one case) or extrusions of atheromatous debris into the inflamed adventitia (two cases). It is suggested that damage to the aortic wall, followed by adventitial inflammation due to allergy to a component of the atherosclerotic plaque, is one way in which this disease may develop.

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