Case Report of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Suspected to be Pulmonary Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer

Standard endocrine therapy and chemotherapy can induce long-term remission in breast cancer patients; however, breast cancer can recur at any site. Pulmonary nodules with lymphadenopathy in advanced cancer patients are likely to be assumed as metastases. A 44-year-old woman with a history of breast...

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Main Authors:	Kim, Hye Sook, Lee, Suk-young, Oh, Sang Cheul, Choi, Chul Won, Kim, Jun Suk, Seo, Jae Hong
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Korean Cancer Association 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4132448/

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spelling	pubmed-41324482014-08-20 Case Report of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Suspected to be Pulmonary Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer Kim, Hye Sook Lee, Suk-young Oh, Sang Cheul Choi, Chul Won Kim, Jun Suk Seo, Jae Hong Case Report Standard endocrine therapy and chemotherapy can induce long-term remission in breast cancer patients; however, breast cancer can recur at any site. Pulmonary nodules with lymphadenopathy in advanced cancer patients are likely to be assumed as metastases. A 44-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer was presented to our institution with abnormal findings on 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging, which suggested lung metastasis. She had previously been diagnosed with breast cancer (T1N2M0, Stage IIIa, intraductal carcinoma, triple negative cancer). Histological analysis of the mediastinal lymph node biopsy demonstrated sarcoidosis, showing a chronic, non-caseating, granulomatous inflammation. Our case highlights the need for non-malignant diagnoses in those with prior malignancies, and the need for histological evaluations in the event of first recurrence following potentially curative therapy. Korean Cancer Association 2014-07 2014-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4132448/ /pubmed/25038768 http://dx.doi.org/10.4143/crt.2014.46.3.317 Text en Copyright © 2014 by the Korean Cancer Association. This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Kim, Hye Sook Lee, Suk-young Oh, Sang Cheul Choi, Chul Won Kim, Jun Suk Seo, Jae Hong
spellingShingle	Kim, Hye Sook Lee, Suk-young Oh, Sang Cheul Choi, Chul Won Kim, Jun Suk Seo, Jae Hong Case Report of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Suspected to be Pulmonary Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
author_facet	Kim, Hye Sook Lee, Suk-young Oh, Sang Cheul Choi, Chul Won Kim, Jun Suk Seo, Jae Hong
author_sort	Kim, Hye Sook
title	Case Report of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Suspected to be Pulmonary Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_short	Case Report of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Suspected to be Pulmonary Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_full	Case Report of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Suspected to be Pulmonary Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_fullStr	Case Report of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Suspected to be Pulmonary Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_full_unstemmed	Case Report of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Suspected to be Pulmonary Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer
title_sort	case report of pulmonary sarcoidosis suspected to be pulmonary metastasis in a patient with breast cancer
description	Standard endocrine therapy and chemotherapy can induce long-term remission in breast cancer patients; however, breast cancer can recur at any site. Pulmonary nodules with lymphadenopathy in advanced cancer patients are likely to be assumed as metastases. A 44-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer was presented to our institution with abnormal findings on 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging, which suggested lung metastasis. She had previously been diagnosed with breast cancer (T1N2M0, Stage IIIa, intraductal carcinoma, triple negative cancer). Histological analysis of the mediastinal lymph node biopsy demonstrated sarcoidosis, showing a chronic, non-caseating, granulomatous inflammation. Our case highlights the need for non-malignant diagnoses in those with prior malignancies, and the need for histological evaluations in the event of first recurrence following potentially curative therapy.
publisher	Korean Cancer Association
publishDate	2014
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4132448/
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Case Report of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis Suspected to be Pulmonary Metastasis in a Patient with Breast Cancer

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