Miliary opacities in pulmonary sarcoidosis

Respirol Case Rep. 2020 Apr 18;8(5):e00563. doi: 10.1002/rcr2.563. eCollection 2020 Jul.

Authors

Keishi Sugino¹, Hirotaka Ono¹, Masahiro Ando¹, Seiji Igarashi², Atsuko Kurosaki³, Eiyasu Tsuboi¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine Tsuboi Hospital Koriyama City Japan.
² Department of Pathology Tsuboi Hospital Koriyama City Japan.
³ Department of Diagnostic Radiology Fukujuji Hospital, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association Tokyo Japan.

Abstract

Pulmonary sarcoidosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of miliary opacities in bilateral upper lobes predominance.

Keywords: Miliary opacity; non‐caseating epithelioid cell granuloma; sarcoidosis.

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