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Pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as metastatic cervical cancer: a pitfall in CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET)
Sarcoidosis has been associated with co-existing malignancies in several organs, including the breast and thyroid gland as well as lymphomas. However, the occurrence of sarcoidosis with cervical cancer is rare with only nine previous cases reported in the published literature. We present a case of p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7465737/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32922836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20190125 |
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author | Rubasingham, Jeffrey Marzouk, Sherief Madhavan, Krishnaswamy Sioftanos, George Liyanage, Sidath H |
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description | Sarcoidosis has been associated with co-existing malignancies in several organs, including the breast and thyroid gland as well as lymphomas. However, the occurrence of sarcoidosis with cervical cancer is rare with only nine previous cases reported in the published literature. We present a case of pulmonary sarcoidosis imitating mediastinal lymph node metastases on the staging CT scan and positron emission tomography imaging. The presence of thoracic lymphadenopathy without any pelvic lymphadenopathy prompted histological confirmation of sarcoidosis on endobronchial ultrasound guided biopsy. Misdiagnosing pulmonary sarcoidosis as metastases would have precluded the patient from receiving the curative treatment and likely resulted in suboptimal outcomes. |
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spelling | pubmed-74657372020-09-11 Pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as metastatic cervical cancer: a pitfall in CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET) Rubasingham, Jeffrey Marzouk, Sherief Madhavan, Krishnaswamy Sioftanos, George Liyanage, Sidath H BJR Case Rep Case Report Sarcoidosis has been associated with co-existing malignancies in several organs, including the breast and thyroid gland as well as lymphomas. However, the occurrence of sarcoidosis with cervical cancer is rare with only nine previous cases reported in the published literature. We present a case of pulmonary sarcoidosis imitating mediastinal lymph node metastases on the staging CT scan and positron emission tomography imaging. The presence of thoracic lymphadenopathy without any pelvic lymphadenopathy prompted histological confirmation of sarcoidosis on endobronchial ultrasound guided biopsy. Misdiagnosing pulmonary sarcoidosis as metastases would have precluded the patient from receiving the curative treatment and likely resulted in suboptimal outcomes. The British Institute of Radiology. 2020-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7465737/ /pubmed/32922836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20190125 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Rubasingham, Jeffrey Marzouk, Sherief Madhavan, Krishnaswamy Sioftanos, George Liyanage, Sidath H Pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as metastatic cervical cancer: a pitfall in CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET) |
title | Pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as metastatic cervical cancer: a pitfall in CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET) |
title_full | Pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as metastatic cervical cancer: a pitfall in CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET) |
title_fullStr | Pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as metastatic cervical cancer: a pitfall in CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET) |
title_full_unstemmed | Pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as metastatic cervical cancer: a pitfall in CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET) |
title_short | Pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as metastatic cervical cancer: a pitfall in CT scans and positron emission tomography (PET) |
title_sort | pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as metastatic cervical cancer: a pitfall in ct scans and positron emission tomography (pet) |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7465737/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32922836 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20190125 |
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