Pleural involvements in pulmonary sarcoidosis: A case report and review of the literature.

Front Med (Lausanne)

Department of Respiratory, The First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shandong Institute of Anesthesia and Respiratory Critical Medicine, Jinan, China.

Published: November 2022


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As a chronic and multisystemic granulomatosis of unknown origin, sarcoidosis can affect multiple organs throughout the body with variable progression and prognosis. Sarcoidosis may present with a battery of symptoms and signs, such as dyspnea, non-productive cough, uveitis, and erythema nodosum. Although the lungs and mediastinal lymph nodes are almost affected in sarcoidosis, involvements of the pleurae remain uncommon. Herein, we report a case of sarcoidosis with both pleural effusions and pleural nodules as confirmed by thoracoscopic pleural biopsy.

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