Sarcoidosis misdiagnosed as malignant tumors: a case report

BACKGROUND: Sarcoidosis is a rare condition that is often misdiagnosed as malignant tumors due to the similar clinical manifestations and imaging findings. CASE PRESENTATION: We encountered a 56-year-old Chinese woman who had a chief complaint of a persistent cough. The chest computer tomography (CT...

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Autores principales: Li, Zuosheng, Li, Xin, Song, Zuoqing, Liu, Jinghao, Dong, Ming, Shi, Tao, Ren, Dian, Xu, Song, Chen, Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26652015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0748-6
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author Li, Zuosheng
Li, Xin
Song, Zuoqing
Liu, Jinghao
Dong, Ming
Shi, Tao
Ren, Dian
Xu, Song
Chen, Jun
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Li, Xin
Song, Zuoqing
Liu, Jinghao
Dong, Ming
Shi, Tao
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Xu, Song
Chen, Jun
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description BACKGROUND: Sarcoidosis is a rare condition that is often misdiagnosed as malignant tumors due to the similar clinical manifestations and imaging findings. CASE PRESENTATION: We encountered a 56-year-old Chinese woman who had a chief complaint of a persistent cough. The chest computer tomography (CT) revealed mediastinal and bilateral hilar lymph node enlargement, and positron emission tomography-computer tomography (PET-CT) revealed abnormal fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in the lymph nodes of the chest and abdomen. To further clarify the diagnosis, a lymph node sampling was performed by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and the histopathologic diagnosis of sarcoidosis was confirmed. CONCLUSIONS: VATS could be an effective and minimally invasive diagnostic method to discriminate pulmonary sarcoidosis with other malignant tumors.
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spelling pubmed-46768672015-12-13 Sarcoidosis misdiagnosed as malignant tumors: a case report Li, Zuosheng Li, Xin Song, Zuoqing Liu, Jinghao Dong, Ming Shi, Tao Ren, Dian Xu, Song Chen, Jun World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Sarcoidosis is a rare condition that is often misdiagnosed as malignant tumors due to the similar clinical manifestations and imaging findings. CASE PRESENTATION: We encountered a 56-year-old Chinese woman who had a chief complaint of a persistent cough. The chest computer tomography (CT) revealed mediastinal and bilateral hilar lymph node enlargement, and positron emission tomography-computer tomography (PET-CT) revealed abnormal fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in the lymph nodes of the chest and abdomen. To further clarify the diagnosis, a lymph node sampling was performed by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and the histopathologic diagnosis of sarcoidosis was confirmed. CONCLUSIONS: VATS could be an effective and minimally invasive diagnostic method to discriminate pulmonary sarcoidosis with other malignant tumors. BioMed Central 2015-12-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4676867/ /pubmed/26652015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0748-6 Text en © Li et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Li, Zuosheng
Li, Xin
Song, Zuoqing
Liu, Jinghao
Dong, Ming
Shi, Tao
Ren, Dian
Xu, Song
Chen, Jun
Sarcoidosis misdiagnosed as malignant tumors: a case report
title Sarcoidosis misdiagnosed as malignant tumors: a case report
title_full Sarcoidosis misdiagnosed as malignant tumors: a case report
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title_short Sarcoidosis misdiagnosed as malignant tumors: a case report
title_sort sarcoidosis misdiagnosed as malignant tumors: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26652015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0748-6
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