Lacrimal gland involvement in granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) commonly accompanies orbital disease, but occasionally may be the sole presentation preceding any other organ manifestation or systemic disease.
Our purpose was to study the characteristics of headache as the sole presentation of CVT, namely if there was a typical pattern of headache or if there was an association between its features and the sinuses involved and extension of CVT.
Hemorrhagic pleural effusion, especially in the right hemithorax rarely occurs as the sole presentation of pancreatitis.
Interestingly, children with growth failure as the sole presentation were significantly older than those with concomitant other symptoms.
Therefore, gastrointestinal symptoms are sometimes absent in the setting of the disease and RAS could be the first or the sole presentation of GSE.
It was also shown that the risk of growth failure has decreased during the past few decades, and that children with growth failure as the sole presentation are markedly different from those with concomitant other symptoms.
There are only two previously reported cases in which constrictive pericarditis was the primary or sole presentation of Whipple's disease [ 7, 8] and a total of six previously reported cases of constrictive pericarditis, all affecting middle aged men [ 7- 12] (Table 1).
Different categories of asthma were based on distinguishable clinical presentation: classical (wheezing with/without dyspnea, cough/chest tightness), cough variant (cough as the sole presenting symptom) and chest tightness variant asthma (defined solely by chest tightness).
Their respective dance and theater troupes join forces in "A Rite," SummerScape's sole dance presentation this season, reflecting on the ballet's volatile reception in 1913 and the historical moment surrounding it.
Further, patients with growth failure as the sole clinical presentation were compared to those with poor growth and concomitant other symptoms.
