Systemic sarcoidosis mimicking malignant metastatic disease

We present a case of systemic sarcoidosis involving the liver, pancreas, lungs, mediastinal and intraabdominal lymph nodes and bones. Multiple organ system manifestations mimicked malignant metastatic disease. The diagnosis was established with clinical, radiological, and pathological findings after...

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Autores principales: Hammen, Irena, Sherson, David Lee, Davidsen, Jesper Roemhild
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4653310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26672956
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ecrj.v2.26761
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description We present a case of systemic sarcoidosis involving the liver, pancreas, lungs, mediastinal and intraabdominal lymph nodes and bones. Multiple organ system manifestations mimicked malignant metastatic disease. The diagnosis was established with clinical, radiological, and pathological findings after neoplasm was ruled out by pathological tests. The patient showed rapid symptom remission with systemic steroid treatment.
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spelling pubmed-46533102015-12-11 Systemic sarcoidosis mimicking malignant metastatic disease Hammen, Irena Sherson, David Lee Davidsen, Jesper Roemhild Eur Clin Respir J Case Report We present a case of systemic sarcoidosis involving the liver, pancreas, lungs, mediastinal and intraabdominal lymph nodes and bones. Multiple organ system manifestations mimicked malignant metastatic disease. The diagnosis was established with clinical, radiological, and pathological findings after neoplasm was ruled out by pathological tests. The patient showed rapid symptom remission with systemic steroid treatment. Co-Action Publishing 2015-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4653310/ /pubmed/26672956 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ecrj.v2.26761 Text en © 2015 Irena Hammen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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