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[Rare association of hypoparathyroidism and mediastinal-pulmonary sarcoidosis]
A Brinkane1, S Peschard, E Leroy-Terquem
1Service de Médecine Interne, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Meulan-Les Mureaux, 1, rue du Fort, 78250 Meulan.
Annales De Medecine Interne
|March 10, 2001
Abstract:
We report the case of a 52-year-old woman who presented hypoparathyroidism and sarcoidosis. The hypoparathyroidism developed 8 years after the diagnosis of sarcoidosis. No element in favor of an autoimmune disease of the parathyroid could be evidenced. Pathology and immunology blood tests were equally noncontributive. Another pathophysiological mechanism, possibly sarcoidic granulomatous infiltration of the parathyroid glands, was suspected. The patient also presented apparently coincidental vitiligo.