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Case Reports
. 1978 Feb;33(1):124-7.
doi: 10.1136/thx.33.1.124.

Acute pleurisy in sarcoidosis

I T Gardiner, J S Uff
Case Reports

Acute pleurisy in sarcoidosis

I T Gardiner et al. Thorax. 1978 Feb.

Abstract

A 47-year-old white man with sarcoidosis presented with a six-week history of acute painful pleurisy. On auscultation a loud pleural rub was heard at the left base together with bilateral basal crepitations. The chest radiograph showed hilar enlargement as well as diffuse lung shadowing. A lung biopsy showed the presence of numerous epithelioid and giant-cell granulomata, particularly subpleurally. A patchy interstitial pneumonia was also present. He was given a six-month course of prednisolone, and lung function returned to normal.

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