title: [A specific etiology of radiologic cannon balls: sarcoidosis. Apropos of a case].
abstract: A distinctive form of sarcoidosis is reported. A young woman, without any past medical history, presented with a cannon-ball radiographic appearance and a fever, suggesting an infection or underlying neoplasm. A lung biopsy gave the diagnosis of sarcoidosis after negative fibreoptic bronchoscopy, bronchial lavage and needle biopsy. This macronodular form of sarcoidosis is known but rarely described. There was a favourable clinical and radiological outcome, which occurred spontaneously.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie, C.H.R.G., Grenoble.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Blanc-Jouvan
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Andre-Poyaud
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Perrin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brambilla
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brambilla
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Une étiologie particulière du lâcher de ballons radiologique: la sarcoïdose. A propos d'une observation.