Mediastinal sarcoidosis mimicking lymph malignancy recurrence after anti-neoplastic therapy.

نویسندگان

  • Massine El Hammoumi
  • Mohamed El Marjany
  • Driss Moussaoui
  • Aberahim Doudouh
  • Hamid Mansouri
  • El Hassane Kabiri
چکیده

The aim of our work is to promote the awareness about the development of sarcoidosis after antineoplastic therapy in order to avoid diagnostic errors with FDG-PET/CT findings. We report the observation of three women with breast, cervix and stomach treated cancers who developed a sarcoidosis after the end of anti-neoplastic therapy. The utility of FDG-PET/CT is in pinpointing the organs candidates for diagnostic biopsy and not distinguishing between the malignancy and granulomatous or inflammatory diseases.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archivos de bronconeumologia

دوره 51 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015