Lambda sign on a gallium scan: not always sarcoidosis

Submitted: February 7, 2020
Accepted: March 25, 2020
Published: April 27, 2020
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Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease of unknown origin. We describe a case of sputum smear-and culture-negative tuberculosis that was diagnosed with histological examination of a surgical lung biopsy, as other entities such as sarcoidosis could not be excluded after extended investigation. Even a typical lambda sign on gallium scintigraphy proved to be misleading

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Kalamara, Evgenia I., Evangelos T. Ballas, and Evangelia S. Panagiotidou. 2020. “Lambda Sign on a Gallium Scan: Not Always Sarcoidosis”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 90 (2). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2020.1247.