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A case with diffuse granulomatous inflammation mimicking malignancy [Maligniteyi taklit eden yaygın granülomatöz inflamasyon olgusu]
Authors
Peri Arbak
Özlem Ataoğlu
Ege Güleç Balbay
Merve Erçelik
Publication date
1 January 2017
Publisher
Duzce University Medical School
Abstract
A 59-year-old female patient was admitted to outpatient clinic with a 3-week dry cough and a 2-month exercise dyspnea (MRC 2). Within the last 3 months there was a loss of 5 kg. She has never smoked. She was a housewife. In thoracic computed tomography of the patient’s postero-anterior chest x-ray, the right lower quadrant is the opacity of the right atrium. A large number of nodules (5 mm in size) in both upper lobes of the lungs, and a common reticulonodular dancer in the middle lobe of the right lingula. The desired positron emission tomography of the patient with malignancy pre-diagnosis; right lobe of the lungs, reticular densities in the left lung, gastroesophageal junction, stomach fundus and large curvature in the dorsal wall of the nasopharynx, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathies, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathies, bilateral lymph nodes, right lobe of the lungs, right scapula and left iliac bone intense hypermetabolic involvement was detected. The axillary lymph node dissection was diagnosed as granulomatous lymphadenitis. The patient was accepted as sarcoidosis, inhaled steroid therapy was initiated and followed. © 2017, Duzce University Medical School. All rights reserved
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