Seeds in the Lungs: A Pseudo-Miliary Pattern of Sarcoidosis

We present a 26-year-old African-American gentleman with no significant past medical history who presented with a three-day history of dry cough. Computerized tomography of the chest showed scattered infiltrates consistent with a pseudo-miliary pattern. A transbronchial biopsy showed non-caseating g...

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Autores principales: Khanal, Subrat, Murali, Sindhubarathi, Ghimire, Pranita, Chu, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8866100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35228928
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21569
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author Khanal, Subrat
Murali, Sindhubarathi
Ghimire, Pranita
Chu, Andrew
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description We present a 26-year-old African-American gentleman with no significant past medical history who presented with a three-day history of dry cough. Computerized tomography of the chest showed scattered infiltrates consistent with a pseudo-miliary pattern. A transbronchial biopsy showed non-caseating granulomas confirming our suspicion for pulmonary sarcoidosis. Miliary sarcoidosis is rare; therefore, health care providers should consider other diagnoses such as tuberculosis, malignancy, and pneumoconiosis.
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spelling pubmed-88661002022-02-27 Seeds in the Lungs: A Pseudo-Miliary Pattern of Sarcoidosis Khanal, Subrat Murali, Sindhubarathi Ghimire, Pranita Chu, Andrew Cureus Internal Medicine We present a 26-year-old African-American gentleman with no significant past medical history who presented with a three-day history of dry cough. Computerized tomography of the chest showed scattered infiltrates consistent with a pseudo-miliary pattern. A transbronchial biopsy showed non-caseating granulomas confirming our suspicion for pulmonary sarcoidosis. Miliary sarcoidosis is rare; therefore, health care providers should consider other diagnoses such as tuberculosis, malignancy, and pneumoconiosis. Cureus 2022-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8866100/ /pubmed/35228928 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21569 Text en Copyright © 2022, Khanal et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Khanal, Subrat
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Seeds in the Lungs: A Pseudo-Miliary Pattern of Sarcoidosis
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title_fullStr Seeds in the Lungs: A Pseudo-Miliary Pattern of Sarcoidosis
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title_short Seeds in the Lungs: A Pseudo-Miliary Pattern of Sarcoidosis
title_sort seeds in the lungs: a pseudo-miliary pattern of sarcoidosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8866100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35228928
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21569
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