Hemoptysis in sarcoidosis.
We describe 4 previously healthy patients with non-cavitated pulmonary sarcoidosis, whose presenting symptom was hemoptysis. Despite the presence of pulmonary involvement in about 90% of patients with sarcoidosis, hemoptysis as the presenting symptom is very rare and was described previously, to our knowledge, in only 5 patients.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006469:Hemoptysis / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications*