Sarcoidosis Presenting with Tracheobronchial Calcification and Nodularity: An Unusual Case Presentation with Treatment Response Assessment by (18)F-FDG-PET/CT

Airway involvement, tracheobronchial nodularity, and calcification are rare occurrences and unorthodox phenomena in sarcoidosis. Here, we report such an unusual case manifesting as tracheal calcification and nodules of the central airways. Radiology and bronchoscopy provide useful diagnostic clues w...

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Autores principales: Bansal, Sameer, Utpat, Ketaki, Desai, Unnati, Basu, Sandip, Joshi, Jyotsna M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5482020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28680208
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_152_16
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author Bansal, Sameer
Utpat, Ketaki
Desai, Unnati
Basu, Sandip
Joshi, Jyotsna M
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description Airway involvement, tracheobronchial nodularity, and calcification are rare occurrences and unorthodox phenomena in sarcoidosis. Here, we report such an unusual case manifesting as tracheal calcification and nodules of the central airways. Radiology and bronchoscopy provide useful diagnostic clues when combined with histopathology. This case serves as an aide-memorie for the variegated presentations of sarcoidosis and emphasizes a high index of suspicion for the entity in such unconventional circumstances. An early favorable treatment response assessment to corticosteroid therapy was shown with (18)F-fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography.
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spelling pubmed-54820202017-07-06 Sarcoidosis Presenting with Tracheobronchial Calcification and Nodularity: An Unusual Case Presentation with Treatment Response Assessment by (18)F-FDG-PET/CT Bansal, Sameer Utpat, Ketaki Desai, Unnati Basu, Sandip Joshi, Jyotsna M Indian J Nucl Med Case Report Airway involvement, tracheobronchial nodularity, and calcification are rare occurrences and unorthodox phenomena in sarcoidosis. Here, we report such an unusual case manifesting as tracheal calcification and nodules of the central airways. Radiology and bronchoscopy provide useful diagnostic clues when combined with histopathology. This case serves as an aide-memorie for the variegated presentations of sarcoidosis and emphasizes a high index of suspicion for the entity in such unconventional circumstances. An early favorable treatment response assessment to corticosteroid therapy was shown with (18)F-fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5482020/ /pubmed/28680208 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_152_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sarcoidosis Presenting with Tracheobronchial Calcification and Nodularity: An Unusual Case Presentation with Treatment Response Assessment by (18)F-FDG-PET/CT
title Sarcoidosis Presenting with Tracheobronchial Calcification and Nodularity: An Unusual Case Presentation with Treatment Response Assessment by (18)F-FDG-PET/CT
title_full Sarcoidosis Presenting with Tracheobronchial Calcification and Nodularity: An Unusual Case Presentation with Treatment Response Assessment by (18)F-FDG-PET/CT
title_fullStr Sarcoidosis Presenting with Tracheobronchial Calcification and Nodularity: An Unusual Case Presentation with Treatment Response Assessment by (18)F-FDG-PET/CT
title_full_unstemmed Sarcoidosis Presenting with Tracheobronchial Calcification and Nodularity: An Unusual Case Presentation with Treatment Response Assessment by (18)F-FDG-PET/CT
title_short Sarcoidosis Presenting with Tracheobronchial Calcification and Nodularity: An Unusual Case Presentation with Treatment Response Assessment by (18)F-FDG-PET/CT
title_sort sarcoidosis presenting with tracheobronchial calcification and nodularity: an unusual case presentation with treatment response assessment by (18)f-fdg-pet/ct
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5482020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28680208
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_152_16
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