The Ewha Medical Journal  2015;38(1):50-53

doi:10.12771/emj.2015.38.1.50

Gastric Involvement of Pulmonary Sarcoidosis.

So Hyeon HONG 1 ; Ji Young CHANG ; Min Kyung CHUNG ; Hyo Moon SON ; Chung Hyun TAE ; Jung Hyun CHANG ; Ki Nam SHIM

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Keywords

Sarcoidosis; Stomach; Granulomatous gastritis

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

English

Abstract

Gastric sarcoidosis is a rare disease accounting for 0.1~0.9% of all sarcoidosis cases. It presents either as a systemic disease or as an isolated finding. Diagnosis is established with biopsy of a lesion. It is important to distinguish between sarcoidosis and a sarcoid-like reaction, which can be caused by Crohn's disease, foreign body reaction, fungal infection, tuberculosis, or malignancy. We report a 60-year-old woman with both gastric and pulmonary sarcoidosis.