Renal calculi in a patient with Erdheim-Chester disease

Int Urol Nephrol. 2005;37(3):453-6. doi: 10.1007/s11255-004-0020-4.

Abstract

Erdheim-Chester Disease (ECD) is a non-inherited multifocal lipid storing histiocytosis. It is a rare disease characterised by lipid-laden monocyte infiltration of long bones causing cortical sclerosis and characteristic X-ray appearances. It also involves extraskeletal tissue in up to 50% of cases including retroperitoneal and renal infiltration. We report a patient with long standing ECD with widespread extraskeletal involvement, including significant renal infiltration, presenting with left hydronephrosis secondery obstruction from a proximal ureteric calculas.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Erdheim-Chester Disease / complications*
  • Erdheim-Chester Disease / pathology
  • Humans
  • Hydronephrosis / etiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Ureteral Calculi / etiology*
  • Ureteral Calculi / pathology