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Atraumatic forearm swelling in a patient with poorly controlled asthma
We present a case of sarcoidosis presenting as unilateral forearm swelling. A 65-year-old male with a long history of asthma presented with unexplained left forearm and hand swelling. Over many years, chest imaging had been devoid of adenopathy or parenchymal findings suspicious for sarcoid, until a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8349057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34401293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101454 |
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author | Leon, Matthew Liotta, Robert Aryal, Shambhu Vangeertruyden, Peter Tintle, Scott Klassen-Fischer, Mary Holley, Aaron Kelly, William Collen, Jacob |
author_facet | Leon, Matthew Liotta, Robert Aryal, Shambhu Vangeertruyden, Peter Tintle, Scott Klassen-Fischer, Mary Holley, Aaron Kelly, William Collen, Jacob |
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description | We present a case of sarcoidosis presenting as unilateral forearm swelling. A 65-year-old male with a long history of asthma presented with unexplained left forearm and hand swelling. Over many years, chest imaging had been devoid of adenopathy or parenchymal findings suspicious for sarcoid, until after the extremity findings emerged. The patient was diagnosed based on subcutaneous, dermal and mediastinal lymph node histopathology. Sarcoid presenting with isolated extremity findings prior to more typical pulmonary manifestations is rare even for cutaneous or soft tissue sarcoid, highlighting the need to maintain a high index of suspicion for sarcoidosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-83490572021-08-15 Atraumatic forearm swelling in a patient with poorly controlled asthma Leon, Matthew Liotta, Robert Aryal, Shambhu Vangeertruyden, Peter Tintle, Scott Klassen-Fischer, Mary Holley, Aaron Kelly, William Collen, Jacob Respir Med Case Rep Case Report We present a case of sarcoidosis presenting as unilateral forearm swelling. A 65-year-old male with a long history of asthma presented with unexplained left forearm and hand swelling. Over many years, chest imaging had been devoid of adenopathy or parenchymal findings suspicious for sarcoid, until after the extremity findings emerged. The patient was diagnosed based on subcutaneous, dermal and mediastinal lymph node histopathology. Sarcoid presenting with isolated extremity findings prior to more typical pulmonary manifestations is rare even for cutaneous or soft tissue sarcoid, highlighting the need to maintain a high index of suspicion for sarcoidosis. Elsevier 2021-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8349057/ /pubmed/34401293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101454 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Leon, Matthew Liotta, Robert Aryal, Shambhu Vangeertruyden, Peter Tintle, Scott Klassen-Fischer, Mary Holley, Aaron Kelly, William Collen, Jacob Atraumatic forearm swelling in a patient with poorly controlled asthma |
title | Atraumatic forearm swelling in a patient with poorly controlled asthma |
title_full | Atraumatic forearm swelling in a patient with poorly controlled asthma |
title_fullStr | Atraumatic forearm swelling in a patient with poorly controlled asthma |
title_full_unstemmed | Atraumatic forearm swelling in a patient with poorly controlled asthma |
title_short | Atraumatic forearm swelling in a patient with poorly controlled asthma |
title_sort | atraumatic forearm swelling in a patient with poorly controlled asthma |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8349057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34401293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2021.101454 |
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