Retroperitoneal Sarcoidosis

✍ Scribed by Vikram Singh Dogra; Jesse Poblete

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 452 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870210414

✦ Synopsis

Sarcoidosis is a multi-organ system disease of unknown etiology. It primarily affects the mediastinal and hilar lymph nodes, lungs, skin, and eyes. Less often there is involvement of the liver, spleen, peripheral lymph nodes, salivary glands, heart, and nervous system. The diagnosis is usually suspected on the basis of typical clinical features or chest radiograph findings, which are abnormal in about 90% of patients at the time of presentation.' We report sonographic findings in a case in which retroperitoneal lymph node involvement and hepatosplenomegaly were the manifestations in the ultrasonic examination, with suggestion of right paratracheal adenopathy on chest radiography. Involvement of intraabdominal or retroperitoneal lymph nodes occurs rarely, but when it occurs, other manifestations of sarcoidosis, such as typical hilar adenopathy , are usually present.2 To our knowledge no sonographic findings in this disease have been reported to date.