The Disease With No Face: Diagnosing Erdheim-Chester, One of Medicine’s Great Diagnostic Puzzles
What could possibly connect persistent pain in the long bones of both legs, excessive thirst, tissue appearing around the kidneys, fluid around the heart and an unusual layer of tissue encasing the aorta? At first, very little. One symptom may take a patient to an orthopaedic surgeon. Another to an endocrinologist. A kidney abnormality may […]
