Sarcoidosis simulating metastasis in patient with Merkel cell carcinoma

Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial

Nathália Bordeira Chagas¹  Lucimar Retto Da Silva De Avó¹  Victor Hugo Maion¹  Michel Antonio Kiyota Moutinho¹  Débora Gusmão Melo¹  Carla Maria Ramos Germano¹ 

关键词: Merkel cell carcinoma;    sarcoidosis;    immune system;    carcinoma de célula Merkel;    sarcoidose;    sistema imune;   

DOI  :  10.5935/1676-2444.20140042

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare and aggressive skin neuroendocrine tumor whose etiology remains little known. The immune system dysfunction is considered one of the possible causes, shared with other diseases, like sarcoidosis. This article presents the case of a male patient, in the seventh decade of life, which had a prior MCC diagnosis and was subsequently diagnosed with sarcoidosis, which radiologically simulated lung and mediastinum metastasis. The association between MCC and sarcoidosis is infrequent and rarely described in literature, found in only two case reports.

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