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Saddle Nose & Cauliflower Ear Deformities in Relapsing Polychondritis
These images depict a 32-year-old man who presented with five weeks of left-sided hearing loss, weight loss and discomfort in the nose, ear, chest wall and knee. He had an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of 120 mm/hr, and a C-reactive protein level of 225.4 mg/L. The photographs show his nose and ear deformities.
Born and raised in Jamaica, Kurt Blake, MBBS, finished medical school at the University of the West Indies and worked with an orthopedic team in a rural hospital. Later, he joined the faculty of St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies. He is now pursuing a fellowship in rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
