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Pulmonary sarcoidosis associated with psoriasis vulgaris: coincidental occurrence or causal association? Case report by Melita Nikolopoulou; Stamatis Katsenos; Kostas Psathakis; Efstathios Rallis; Dimitrios Sampaziotis; Panagiotis Panagou; Kostas Tsintiris; Demosthenes Bouros is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background Sarcoidosis is rarely associated with a distinct disease. One disease infrequently associated with sarcoidosis is psoriasis. ## Case presentation This case study describes a 38-year-old male, who presented with chest pain, high-grade fever, arthralgias and a skin rash accompanied by bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy on his chest radiograph. Extensive investigations including fiber-optic bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage and labial and skin biopsies, demonstrated that two distinct clinical entities co-existed in the same patient: pulmonary sarcoidosis and psoriasis vulgaris. Combination therapy for both diseases was applied and the patient was greatly improved. ## Conclusion This is the first well-documented case of sarcoidosis and psoriasis in the same patient, reported on the basis of safe and widely-used techniques that were not available until fairly recently. These disorders might share common pathogenic mechanisms that could explain their co-existence in the patient.
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- Author
- Melita Nikolopoulou; Stamatis Katsenos; Kostas Psathakis; Efstathios Rallis; Dimitrios Sampaziotis; Panagiotis Panagou; Kostas Tsintiris; Demosthenes Bouros
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-2466)
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)