Nodular Spleen Involvement In Sarcoidosis

42016

Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic disease of unknown etiology. The lungs are the most common affected organ. In order of frequency lymph nodes, eyes, skin, liver and spleen involvement occurs. The most common radiographic pattern is bilateral hilar adenopathy. Lung infiltration commonly occupies. Abdominal involvement is rare. In radiographic evaluation lymph adenopathy, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly hypovascular liver and nodular lesion in spleen is seen. Although histologic evidence of sarcoidosis involving the liver and spleen is seen in 50%–80% of autopsy specimens, dysfunction of these organs is uncommon and solitary involvement of spleen is reported rarely. Here we report a case of a patient with numerous hypodense nodular splenic lesions and without liver involvement on abdominal CT.

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sarcoidosis , spleen , solitary

Kocatepe Medical Journal

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