Introduction: Sarcoidosis is a chronic i-nflammatory pulmonary disease with unknown etiology and variable clinical manifestations including, epithelial cell granulomas and alteration in tissue and organ functions.
Materials & Methods: In this cross-sec-tional study, high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) documents of pati-ents with proven sarcoidosis were re-evaluated. The results were analyzed using the software SPSS-11 and freq-uencies of the disease were reported as percentages and diagrams.
Findings: Many typical and atypical manifestations of sarcoidosis such as bronchiectasis, lymphadenopathy, lym-ph node calcification and etc, were obs-erved at HRCT
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Discussion & Conclusion: HRC may pr-ovide more advantages to identify and distinguish sarcoidosis from other mim-icking diseases. However, further inves-tigations are needed to scrutinize the matter.
kalantari S, rostam zad S, kahkohi S, dianati S, salmanipoor H. Typical and Atypical Manifestations of Patients With Sarcoidosis at High-resolution Computed Tomography(HRCT. Journal of Ilam University of Medical Sciences 2013; 21 (3) :142-147 URL: http://sjimu.medilam.ac.ir/article-1-1203-en.html