A Case of Muscular Sarcoidosis diagnosed by Gallium-67 Scintigraphy and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
- Author:
Hyung Sun SOHN
;
Euy Neyng KIM
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Sarcoidosis;
Ga-67 citrate;
Magnetic resonance imaging;
Muscle
- MeSH:
Arthralgia;
Fever;
Granuloma;
Humans;
Knee Joint;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging*;
Radionuclide Imaging*;
Sarcoidosis*
- From:Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
1999;33(6):543-548
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Gallium-67 scintigraphy is helpful in the assessment of active extrapulmonary sarcoidosis. Muscular involvement of sarcoidosis is often asymptomatic or nonspecific, and laboratory examinations do not provide convincing evidence of muscular involvement. We report a case of muscular sarcoidosis, which was detected by gallium-67 scintigraphy. In a patient who was suffering from fever and arthralgia of knee joint, gallium-67 scintigraphy showed mediastinal and hilar involvement of sarcoidosis with unexpected extensive muscular uptake. Magenetic resonance imaging revealed the detailed depiction of intramuscular infiltration of sarcoid granuloma. Gallium-67 scintigraphy is useful in detecting inflammatory muscular involvement of sarcoidosis as well as other multiorgan involvement.
