Pulmonary sarcoidosis: calcification within the galaxy sign

Kunal, Shekhar; Shah, Ashok

doi:10.1136/bcr-2016-218187

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“…The chest CT without contrast agent (Figure 2) reveals the presence of multiple parenchymal nodules with a bilateral diffuse distribution, some of them with variable degrees of calcification (Figure 3), but none of them with cavities, the largest of which with a 11 mm diameter, as well as multiple mediastinal lymphadenopathies, some of them partially calcified (Figure 4). which present patients diagnosed incidentally with lymph node calcifications, after at least 7 years of disease evolution, excepting the case Kunat et al (20) , where the female patient presented these calcifications at the time of diagnosis.…”

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An Atypical Case of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis

Negoescu,

Moșteanu,

Băiceanu

et al. 2023

Internal Medicine

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Sarcoidosis is a multisystem, granulomatous, inflammatory disease, of uncertain aetiology, ubiquitous, much more common in the female population. The age at onset is usually between 30 and 50 years, also having a second peak of incidence in the immediate post-menopausal period. Respiratory system or lymphatic system involvement is present in about 90% of sarcoidosis cases, usually being short-lived and self-limiting, but sometimes the disease can become chronic and less often it can progress to irreversible pulmonary fibrosis, complicated with pulmonary hypertension followed by chronic pulmonary heart disease with cardio-respiratory failure and death. We present the case of a patient presenting a rare, nodular form of sarcoidosis, in which multiple calcifications, both parenchymal and lymphatic, were identified by imaging, most likely with a long-term evolution of the disease beforehand, but with a completely preserved pulmonary function.

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