Erdheim-Chester disease

Discussion:

Rare case showing a relatively gradual progression of findings typical for Erdheim-Chester disease. The patient presented with renal obstruction due to ill-defined, infiltrative soft tissue in the renal hila and proximal ureters. 

Over the course of 9 years, the patient developed several more manifestations of the disease:

  • increasing renal involvement, resulting in obstruction of the right kidney and typical "hairy kidney" appearance of the left
  • adrenal infiltration
  • biliary involvement with gallbladder and cystic duct thickening
  • coating of the proximal great vessels and thoracic and abdominal aorta
  • involvement and narrowing of the IVC
  • infiltration of the RCA and right AV groove

Please see companion case with many overlapping imaging features. 

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