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ArticleBMJ case reports2011

Concomitant axillary mycobacteriosis and neuro-sarcoidosis: diagnostic pitfalls.

Roderich Meckenstock, Audrey Therby, Catherine Chapelon-Abric, Chantal Nifle, Jean Paul Beressi, Constance Lebas, Alix Greder-Belan

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Article in BMJ case reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Roderich MeckenstockDepartment of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Versailles Hospital, Le Chesnay, France. rmeckenstock@ch-versailles.fr
Audrey Therby
Catherine Chapelon-Abric
Chantal Nifle
Jean Paul Beressi
Constance Lebas
Alix Greder-Belan
Centre Hospitalier de Versailles · FRSorbonne Université · FR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are many similarities between mycobacteriosis, in particular, tuberculosis, and sarcoidosis such as predominant intrathoracic localisation (even if all organs and tissues may be concerned), great variability of phenotypic expression, and granulomatous inflammatory reaction, caseous necrosis not being an absolute criterion of tuberculosis. Moreover, microbial (or mycobacterial?) agents may play a role in the pathogenesis of sarcoidosis which remains a diagnosis of exclusion particularly in atypical cases. The authors report a case of a non-immunocompromised female patient who presented, simultaneously, isolated axillary tubercular adenitis and neuro-sarcoidosis without any other localisation. This case illustrates the difficulty to distinguish between both of these two diseases and thus to choose an adequate treatment when diagnosis is not proven. Moreover, our patient (human leucocyte antigen B27 positive) presented symptoms of spondylarthritis which also may have a nosological link with tuberculosis or sarcoidosis.

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AxillaAdrenal Cortex HormonesAntitubercular AgentsBrain DiseasesDiagnosis, DifferentialDiagnostic ImagingFemaleHumansMiddle AgedMycobacterium InfectionsSarcoidosisSpondylarthritisAdrenal Cortex HormonesAntitubercular Agents

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PMID22679226
PMCPMC3176372
OpenAlexW2134170873

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