Due to its varying and often mimicking appearance, sarcoidosis is considered one of the great imitators in medicine. A rare form of pulmonary sarcoidosis, the nodular form, can be mistaken for disseminated malignancy. We present the case of 38-year-old patient, whose chest x ray demonstrated a large number of pulmonary nodules, more than 1 cm in diameter, predominantly in a peripheral distribution, with bilaterally enlarged hila, thus making disseminated malignant disease a part of di erential diagnosis. e sight of multiple lung nodules can be very suggestive for metastatic disease and misleading in everyday clinical practice. Sarcoidosis, Mimicking, Malignant disease, Nodules, Radiology; Nodular pulmonary sarcoidosis N Zbog svoje raznolike prezentacije i brojnih sličnosti s drugim bolestima, sarkoidoza je znana kao veliki imitator u medicini. Jedan od oblika sarkoidoze, nodularna plućna sarkoidoza, lako se može zamijeniti s malignom diseminiranom bolešću. Prikazujemo slučaj 38-godišnjeg pacijenta, čiji je torakalni rendgenogram pokazao veći broj periferno smještenih plućnih nodusa promjera većih od 1 cm uz obostrano uvećane hiluse. Takav nalaz upućivao je na diseminiranu malign bolest kao jednu od diferencijalnih dijagnoza. Cilj ovog prikaza slučaja je podsjetiti kolege na nodularnu plućnu sarkoidozu kao jednu od mogućih dijagnoza u slučaju ovako sugestivnih nalaza kod pacijenata bez ranije poznate maligne bolesti.
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