A Case Report of Sarcoidosis Mimicking Vertebral Metastasis

A 35-year-old African American male, previously healthy, presented with lower back and bilateral lower extremity pain associated with intermitted night sweats and weight loss. Imaging was concerning diffuse vertebral metastatic lesions. He underwent extensive workup to evaluate for metastatic diseas...

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Autores principales: Chandrakumaran, Anchalia, Bateman, Henry R., Qayyum, Rehan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6151222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30271436
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5326324
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description A 35-year-old African American male, previously healthy, presented with lower back and bilateral lower extremity pain associated with intermitted night sweats and weight loss. Imaging was concerning diffuse vertebral metastatic lesions. He underwent extensive workup to evaluate for metastatic disease. However, right iliac crest, mediastinal, and left inguinal lymph node biopsies were consistent with sarcoidosis. He was started on methotrexate, folic acid, and prednisone.
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spelling pubmed-61512222018-09-30 A Case Report of Sarcoidosis Mimicking Vertebral Metastasis Chandrakumaran, Anchalia Bateman, Henry R. Qayyum, Rehan Case Rep Med Case Report A 35-year-old African American male, previously healthy, presented with lower back and bilateral lower extremity pain associated with intermitted night sweats and weight loss. Imaging was concerning diffuse vertebral metastatic lesions. He underwent extensive workup to evaluate for metastatic disease. However, right iliac crest, mediastinal, and left inguinal lymph node biopsies were consistent with sarcoidosis. He was started on methotrexate, folic acid, and prednisone. Hindawi 2018-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6151222/ /pubmed/30271436 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5326324 Text en Copyright © 2018 Anchalia Chandrakumaran et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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