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Acute Pleurisy in Sarcoidosis

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Journal Thorax
Date 1978 Feb 1
PMID 644534
Citations 3
Authors
I T Gardiner
J S Uff
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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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