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Sarcoidosis Incidentally Diagnosed: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Beşir Kesici,
Ahmet Burak Toros,
Levent Bayraktar,
Adem Dervişoğlu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
case reports in pulmonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2090-6846
pISSN - 2090-6854
DOI - 10.1155/2014/702868
Subject(s) - sarcoidosis , medicine , granuloma , differential diagnosis , biopsy , lymph node biopsy , dermatology , lymph node , tuberculosis , pathology
Sarcoidosis is a chronic, granulomatous condition with unknown cause. Because most of the patients are free of clinical symptoms, sarcoidosis should be considered in differential diagnosis if noncaseous granuloma is noted in biopsies, performed for other reasons. With no clinical symptoms, our patient was diagnosed with sarcoidosis upon identifying noncaseous granuloma in the lymph node biopsy material collected during the laparoscopic operation, performed for gallbladder polyp.

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