Petrified pinna and pericarditis in autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome.
Petrified pinna refers to the calcification or ossification of the external auricular cartilage. It is an uncommon clinical entity and is most often associated with local trauma, frostbite or inflammation. Auricular calcification may be the exclusive cutaneous marker of underlying endocrinopathy. It has been most commonly associated with adrenal insufficiency and other endocrine conditions like diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism and acromegaly. We present a 47-year-old Caucasian manwho presented with acute pericarditis with tamponade physiology, who was found to have petrified pinnae as a telltale sign of the underlying autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 2.
['Sedhai|Yub Raj|YR|http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1755-5489', 'Basnyat|Soney|S|']
D000309:Adrenal Insufficiency D002114:Calcinosis D003937:Diagnosis, Differential D054644:Ear Auricle D004652:Empty Sella Syndrome D006801:Humans D007037:Hypothyroidism D008297:Male D008875:Middle Aged D020519:Pericardiocentesis D010493:Pericarditis D016884:Polyendocrinopathies, Autoimmune D016896:Treatment Outcome
adrenal disorders pericardial disease thyroid disease