PART 15: Disorders of the Joints and Adjacent Tissues
SECTION 2 Disorders of Immune-Mediated Injury
328 Relapsing Polychondritis
 | Figure 328-1 Left. The pinna is erythematous, swollen, and tender. Not shown is the ear lobule that is spared as there is no underlying cartilage. Right. The pinna is thickened and deformed. The destruction of the underlying cartilage results in a floppy ear. |
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 | Figure 328-2 Saddlenose results from destruction and collapse of the nasal cartilage. (Reprinted from the Clinical Slide Collection on the Rheumatic Diseases, ©1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999. Used by permission of the American College of Rheumatology.) |
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