Unusual isolated extrapulmonary sarcoidosis: Case report

• Main Authors: Soheil Ebrahimpour, Zeinab Mohseni Afshar, Mahmoud Sadeghi-Haddad-Zavareh, Sahar Oladzad, Arefeh Babazadeh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2019-01-01
• Series: Journal of Acute Disease
• Subjects: Sarcoidosis; Lung; Liver
• Online Access: http://www.jadweb.org/article.asp?issn=2221-6189;year=2019;volume=8;issue=1;spage=38;epage=40;aulast=Ebrahimpour

Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous condition with unidentified etiology. This disease should be considered in differential diagnosis if non-caseating granulomas is noted in biopsies, because numerous cases presented with no clinical symptoms. Although the lung is the most common organ involved in the disease, there also is an extra-pulmonary form (<10%). It should be noted that the presentation of sarcoidosis may be atypical. In this article, we report a systemic sarcoidosis case, with specific clinical findings: extrathoracic onset with lymph nodes.