Pulmonary sarcoidosis simulating metastatic breast cancer

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 134-136

  Dragoumis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Tsiftsoglou, Aris ^a   Assimaki, Anthoula ^a  

^a St Luke's Hospital   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Lung metastasis; Pulmonary sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; SARCOIDOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 53749097488     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.43148     Document Type: Article

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