An Unusual Entity of Sarcoidosis: Acute Parotitis.
Sarcoidosis is a rare systemic granulamatous disease of unknown etiology that may effect many organ and system, mainly lungs. This disease is rare in children. Sarcoidosis is staging contingent on posterior-anterior chest x-ray. Stage III rarely occurs.
In generally, sarcoidosis in children is diagnosed by extrapulmonary organ involvement. We presented hereby a rare case of sarcoidosis stage III diagnosed in a child patient with acute parotitis and reviewed the relevant literature.
Sarcoidosis is a rare systemic granulamatous disease of unknown etiology that may effect many organs and system, mainly lungs and rarely affects child. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis is more difficult because of its rarity and the similarity to other several granulamatous diseases. There are four stages in sarcoidosis based on the extent of lung involvement . These
stages are stage 0 (normal); stage I (Bilateral Hilar Adenopathy without pulmonary infiltrates); stage II (BHL plus pulmonary infiltrates); stage III (parenchymal infiltrates without BHL) and stage IV (irreversible scarring and distortion).
Stage I and stage II are the most common types of presentation.3,4 Hereby, we report a rare case of sarcoidosis stage III diagnosed in a child patient with acute parotitis and reviewed the relevant literature.
A 12-year-old male presented with a 3-day history of painful, tenderness, swelling on right preaurikuler and submandibular area. The patient’s history was clear from trauma, frequent infection and mumps.
Tenderness and hyperemia of the skin on preaurikuler and submandibular area was observed. Further, otolaryngological and systemic examinations were unremarkable.
Otolaryngol Open J. 2016; 2(1): 28-30. doi: 10.17140/OTLOJ-2-108
