Lambda sign on a gallium scan: not always sarcoidosis
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Evgenia I. Kalamara
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gina.kal88@gmail.com
Sotiria Regional Chest Disease Hospital of Athens, Greece.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3615-8948
- Evangelos T. Ballas Cardiology Clinic, General Hospital of Athens “G. Gennimatas”, Greece. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7460-2288
- Evangelia S. Panagiotidou Respiratory Failure Clinic, General Hospital of Thessaloniki “G. Papanikolaou”, Greece.
Abstract
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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Published
2020-04-27
Keywords:
tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, culture-negative, lambda sign
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Kalamara, E. I., Ballas, E. T., & Panagiotidou, E. S. (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
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