A case of sarcoidosis misdiagnosed as tuberculosis
Journal Title: Journal of Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
Abstract Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic chronic granulomatous disease of unknown origin, which can involve nearly all organs. In India tuberculosis is one of the common chronic infectious diseases presenting with high degree of morbidity and mortality. Almost any organ of the body can also be infected with tuberculosis. Both the disease has got high degree of similarity radiologically and histopathologically with the only difference is lack of caseation necrosis in sarcoidosis. We present here a case of sarcoidosis which were misdiagnosed as tuberculosis and treated with antituberculous drugs initially.
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Manish Shankar, Samir Kumar, Mukesh Kumar Tiwari
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