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Case Reports
. 2005 Mar;2(3):e63.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020063. Epub 2005 Mar 29.

Recurrent pleural and pericardial effusions due to sarcoidosis

Sankar D Navaneethan  1 , Sundar Venkatesh, Rakesh Shrivastava, Jagat Mehta, Robert Israel
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Case Reports

Recurrent pleural and pericardial effusions due to sarcoidosis

Sankar D Navaneethan et al. PLoS Med. 2005 Mar.

Abstract

A 54-year-old man presented with fever, shortness of breath, and left-sided pleuritic chest pain. His bilateral pleural effusions and pericardial effusion turned out to be due to sarcoidosis

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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. CT of the Chest during the Third Hospitalization
The CT shows mediastinal lymphadenopathy (pink arrows) and left pleural effusion.
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