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ArticleSarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG2025

A unique case of extrapulmonary sarcoidosis on F18 FDG PET/CT: "Tiger man".

Inci Uslu Biner, Seval Aslan, Ilknur Ak Sivrikoz, Nazli Sena Seker

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Article in Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG, 2025. 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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  1. Subclinical cardiac involvement: A subtle foe in the setting of systemic sarcoidosis.Sarcoidosis, vasculitis, and diffuse lung diseases : official journal of WASOG · 2026
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Inci Uslu BinerDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Seval AslanDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Ilknur Ak SivrikozDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Nazli Sena SekerDepartment of Pathology, Eskişehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Eskişehir, Turkey.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease in which muscle involvement is a rare extrapulmonary manifestation. We present the case of a 34-year-old man with shortness of breath lasting for three months.  Computerized tomography showed intrathoracic lymph nodes and perihilar consolidations in both lungs. She received treatment for pneumonia, but because of insufficient regression, she was referred to our hospital's chest diseases department for further examination. Laboratory results showed an elevated calcium. We conducted an F-18 FDG PET CT scan because the clinicians suspected cancer. PET/CT scan demonstrated hypermetabolism in bilateral lung parenchyma, multiple lymph nodes, the spleen, muscles, and cutaneous/subcutaneous lesions. With the guidance of PET/CT with a suspicion of lymphoproliferative diseases, an axillary lymph node biopsy revealed granulomas; sarcoidosis was assumed, and corticosteroids were started. This case shows rarely seen muscle involvement of sarcoidosis by emphasizing the ability of  PET/CT in detecting extrapulmonary involvement of the disease.

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