An extremely unusual presentation of isolated extrathoracic sarcoidosis of submandibular lymph node in a child
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Anand Agrawal; Kulwant Singh; Dheeraj Parihar; Chandermani
- Source
- Lung India, Vol 31, Iss 4, Pp 413-415 (2014)
- Subject
- Extrathoracic
granuloma
lymphadenitis
sarcoidosis
Diseases of the respiratory system
RC705-779
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0970-2113
0974-598X
A 12-year-old male child presented with left submandibular lymphadenopathy; excision biopsy revealed noncaseating granuloma with numerous Schaumann bodies in histopathology, suggestive of isolated extrathoracic sarcoidosis, which is an extremely rare entity in the pediatric age group.