Cutaneous sarcoidosis with concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis

Concomitant Patterns of Tuberculosis and Sarcoidosis

Esmaeil Mortaz 1, , Mohammad Reza Masjedi , Soheila Matroodi , Atefeh Abedini , Arda Kiani , Dina Soroush , and Ian M. Adcock * 1 Division of Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2 Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Center, National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (NRITLD), Masih Dane...

Thoracoplasty concomitant with resection for pulmonary tuberculosis.

Pulmonary sarcoidosis masquerading as tuberculosis.

Pulmonary manifestations of sarcoidosis are common and may be initially confused with other common diseases like tuberculosis. We report an 11 yr old girl who presented with chronic cough, low grade fever, recent exposure to tuberculosis and hilar lymphadenopathy. She was provisionally diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis and treated accordingly. As she had poor response to anti tubercular thera...

A STUDY OF 17 PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY SARCOIDOSIS IN MASHAD

Thirty patients with bilateral lymph node enlargement with or without parenchymal infiltrates on the chest x- ray suspected to have sarcoidosis were studied between June 1980 and December 1989 in our institution. Eleven of these patients who were free of parenchymal infiltrates did not have a biopsy performed and the diagnosis of sarcoidosis was made based on self-limited regression and cl...

Cutaneous sarcoidosis.

Quiz 1. What is the diagnosis? 2. Describe the characteristic patterns shown in the Gallium-67 scan (Fig. 2). 3. Skin lesions occur in 75% of patients with this condition. Is this true or false? 4. Lesions respond to treatment with corticosteroids. Is this true or false? 5. Spontaneous remissions occur in nearly two-thirds of patients, but the course is chronic or progressive in 10% to 30%. Is ...