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A Case of Thyroid Cancer Combined with Pulmonary Sarcoidosis  

Kim, Su-Jin (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Lim, Tae Kyung (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Kim, Chang-Hwan (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Hwang, Yong-Il (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Park, Sung-Hoon (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Jang, Seung-Hun (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Min, Kwang-Seon (Department of Pathology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Lee, In-Jae (Department of Radiology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Hwang, Hee-Sung (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Lee, Jae-Woong (Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
Kim, Dong-Gyu (Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine)
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Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases / v.65, no.1, 2008 , pp. 52-56 More about this Journal
Abstract
Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease that primarily affects the lung and lymphatic system of the body. Since Brincker first noted a statistically significant increase of malignant tumors among sarcoidosis patients, there have been several reports on simultaneously developed sarcoidosis and malignancy. A 30-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of multiple enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes. The patient had been well until approximately 10 days before admission, when he developed a cough. Chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) of the chest that were performed at the outpatient department revealed multiple enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes. Cervical lymph node biopsy revealed both non-caseating granuloma and metastatic papillary carcinoma, whereas the mediastinal lymph node showed only non-caseating granuloma. The thyroid gland surgical specimen showed papillary carcinoma. We report here on a case of a 30-year-old man who had sarcoidosis and thyroid cancer, and we include a review of the literature.
Keywords
Sarcoidosis; Thyroid cancer;
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