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Arch Intern Med. 2001;161:2148-2149.

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Epler¹ recently presented an excellent review of bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP), and in this classification, sarcoidosis is not described. Therefore, we thought it would be interesting to report a case of sarcoidosis-associated BOOP whose radiographic aspect is atypical, showing alveolar opacities with consolidations. This form of alveolar sarcoidosis appears in less than 10% of cases,^2-6 and its association with BOOP has not been previously described.

Report of a Case

A 45-year-old man was admitted to our institution 15 days after the onset of illness with moderate-grade fever, nonproductive cough, and pleuritic left-sided chest pain. He had had a tonsillectomy at age 12 years and smoked (20 cigarettes per day) for the past 20 years, without other pathological antecedents. Physical examination revealed an ill-appearing man, with an axillar temperature of 37.8°C and normal blood pressure, pulse rate, and respiration rate. Lung auscultation showed crackling rales in both lung bases. A complete blood cell count . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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