Alveolar Sarcoidosis Mimicking Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia Without Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy
ABSTRACT We present a case of alveolar sarcoidosis showing lower lobe‐predominant areas of airspace consolidation and ground‐glass attenuation on HRCT, mimicking idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP) with spontaneous wandering. Mediastinal lymphadenopathy and uveitis were negative. Surgical lung b...
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| author | Hiroki Kanasaki Noriyuki Enomoto Yuko Tanaka Suguru Kojima Keisuke Morikawa Shogo Nakai Shusuke Yazawa Yasutaka Mochizuka Yusuke Inoue Hideki Yasui Hironao Hozumi Yuzo Suzuki Masato Karayama Kazuki Furuhashi Tomoyuki Fujisawa Naoki Inui Sayaka Ishigaki Naro Ohashi Yasunori Enomoto Satoshi Baba Kazuhiro Tabata Takeshi Johkoh Takafumi Suda |
| author_facet | Hiroki Kanasaki Noriyuki Enomoto Yuko Tanaka Suguru Kojima Keisuke Morikawa Shogo Nakai Shusuke Yazawa Yasutaka Mochizuka Yusuke Inoue Hideki Yasui Hironao Hozumi Yuzo Suzuki Masato Karayama Kazuki Furuhashi Tomoyuki Fujisawa Naoki Inui Sayaka Ishigaki Naro Ohashi Yasunori Enomoto Satoshi Baba Kazuhiro Tabata Takeshi Johkoh Takafumi Suda |
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| description | ABSTRACT We present a case of alveolar sarcoidosis showing lower lobe‐predominant areas of airspace consolidation and ground‐glass attenuation on HRCT, mimicking idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP) with spontaneous wandering. Mediastinal lymphadenopathy and uveitis were negative. Surgical lung biopsy revealed multiple non‐necrotising granulomas. Alveolar sarcoidosis that mimics IIP without mediastinal lymphadenopathy is rare. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5f08e6640de5407799374a104bb4b4b72025-08-20T03:58:40ZengWileyRespirology Case Reports2051-33802025-07-01137n/an/a10.1002/rcr2.70278Alveolar Sarcoidosis Mimicking Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia Without Mediastinal LymphadenopathyHiroki Kanasaki0Noriyuki Enomoto1Yuko Tanaka2Suguru Kojima3Keisuke Morikawa4Shogo Nakai5Shusuke Yazawa6Yasutaka Mochizuka7Yusuke Inoue8Hideki Yasui9Hironao Hozumi10Yuzo Suzuki11Masato Karayama12Kazuki Furuhashi13Tomoyuki Fujisawa14Naoki Inui15Sayaka Ishigaki16Naro Ohashi17Yasunori Enomoto18Satoshi Baba19Kazuhiro Tabata20Takeshi Johkoh21Takafumi Suda22Second Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanDepartment of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanFirst Department of Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanFirst Department of Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanDepartment of Regenerative and Infectious Pathology Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanDepartment of Diagnostic Pathology Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanDepartment of Pathology Kagoshima University Hospital Kagoshima JapanDepartment of Radiology Kansai Rosai Hospital Amagasaki JapanSecond Division, Department of Internal Medicine Hamamatsu University School of Medicine Hamamatsu JapanABSTRACT We present a case of alveolar sarcoidosis showing lower lobe‐predominant areas of airspace consolidation and ground‐glass attenuation on HRCT, mimicking idiopathic interstitial pneumonia (IIP) with spontaneous wandering. Mediastinal lymphadenopathy and uveitis were negative. Surgical lung biopsy revealed multiple non‐necrotising granulomas. Alveolar sarcoidosis that mimics IIP without mediastinal lymphadenopathy is rare.https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.70278alveolar sarcoidosisHRCTidiopathic interstitial pneumoniamediastinal lymphadenopathysurgical lung biopsy |
| spellingShingle | Hiroki Kanasaki Noriyuki Enomoto Yuko Tanaka Suguru Kojima Keisuke Morikawa Shogo Nakai Shusuke Yazawa Yasutaka Mochizuka Yusuke Inoue Hideki Yasui Hironao Hozumi Yuzo Suzuki Masato Karayama Kazuki Furuhashi Tomoyuki Fujisawa Naoki Inui Sayaka Ishigaki Naro Ohashi Yasunori Enomoto Satoshi Baba Kazuhiro Tabata Takeshi Johkoh Takafumi Suda Alveolar Sarcoidosis Mimicking Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia Without Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy Respirology Case Reports alveolar sarcoidosis HRCT idiopathic interstitial pneumonia mediastinal lymphadenopathy surgical lung biopsy |
| title | Alveolar Sarcoidosis Mimicking Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia Without Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy |
| title_full | Alveolar Sarcoidosis Mimicking Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia Without Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy |
| title_fullStr | Alveolar Sarcoidosis Mimicking Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia Without Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Alveolar Sarcoidosis Mimicking Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia Without Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy |
| title_short | Alveolar Sarcoidosis Mimicking Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonia Without Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy |
| title_sort | alveolar sarcoidosis mimicking idiopathic interstitial pneumonia without mediastinal lymphadenopathy |
| topic | alveolar sarcoidosis HRCT idiopathic interstitial pneumonia mediastinal lymphadenopathy surgical lung biopsy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/rcr2.70278 |
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