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[Isolated sarcoidosis of upper respiratory tract--a description of 2 cases].

Klinika Pneumonologii Akademii Medycznej w Gdańsku, ul. Debinki 7, Gdańsk.
Pneumonologia i alergologia polska: organ Polskiego Towarzystwa Ftyzjopneumonologicznego, Polskiego Towarzystwa Alergologicznego, i Instytutu Gruzlicy i Chorob Pluc 02/2008; 76(4):276-80. pp.276-80
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ABSTRACT Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease of unknown etiology. In sarcoidosis almost all organs can be involved but the disease most often affects the lungs and intrathoracic lymph nodes. Isolated extrapulmonary organs involvement occurs very seldom. We present two cases of sarcoidosis limited to upper respiratory tract--a young woman with laryngeal sarcoidosis and recurrent throat pain, and a woman with disease of the sinuses and pharynx and clinical symptoms of chronic sinusitis poorly responsive to conventional treatment.

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Keywords

chronic sinusitis
 
conventional treatment
 
granulomatous disease
 
intrathoracic lymph nodes
 
laryngeal sarcoidosis
 
pharynx
 
recurrent throat pain
 
sarcoidosis
 
sarcoidosis limited
 

Maria Porzezińska