I’ve had chest pain on left side for a few months. They thought it was just pleurisy, but it hasn’t cleared. Just had a biopsy of nodes done which is negative for cancer, and sounds like they aren’t thinking it’s sarcoidosis either. Still have the pleurisy in left lung along with node swelling. Stop Suffering [...]

Granulomatous inflammation is a relatively common finding in routine aspiration cytology of lymph nodes. However, asteroid bodies are very rarely encountered in cytologic preparations, and most morphologic descriptions result from observations made in histologic tissue sections. This brief report describes the cytologic findings in paratracheal aspirate smears from a 74-year-old Caucasian woman with the history [...]

Abstract  Primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is rare. Clinical and histological differential diagnosis of systemic lymphoma and sarcoidosis continues to be a challenge. The first case report in the German and English literature of PCNSL and synchronous sarcoidosis is presented. Synchronous mediastinal lymphadenopathy suggestive of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) or sarcoidosis was noted. Both conditions require [...]