Imaging Pearls ❯ Spleen ❯ Sarcoidosis
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- Sarcoidosis: Facts:
- Most common in age range of 30-50
- AfroAmericans affected 3x more frequent then whites
- Pulmonary complications most common cause of death
- Symptoms include fatigue, fever and weight loss - Sarcoidosis:Abdominal Manifestations:
Liver
- Up to 94% of patients have liver involvement
- Most patients are asymptomatic
- Most common CT finding is hepatomegaly
- Lesions may be solitaty but multiple is more common - Sarcoidosis:Abdominal Manifestations:
Liver
- 69% of patients in one study had cuncurrent splenic lesions.
- Sarcoidosis is treated with steroid therapy - Sarcoidosis:Abdominal Manifestations:
Spleen
- Up to 59% of patients with sarcoidosis have splenic involvement
- CT findings range from splenomegaly, to solitary nodules to multiple nodules