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Can long-standing or previously treated sarcoidosis manifest as progressive airway stenosis with extensive circumferential calcification without active mucosal nodularity on bronchoscopy?

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Pulmonology · Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
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In general, endobronchial stenosis in sarcoidosis is uncommon but can occur at any Scadding stage of the disease. Calcification around the stenotic bronchus occurs in longer-standing disease and usually accompanies distal fibrocystic disease. Endobronchial biopsies show granulomatous involvement at ...

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