...of chest radiography in detecting mediastinal or hilar adenopathy. Genetic amplification techniques, such as polymerase...Nineteen eventually had CT scans, and mediastinal or hilar adenopathy was clearly detected in six patients with equivocal...

...Up to one-third of patients are asymptomatic; diagnosis is often incidentally made with chest x-ray demonstrating hilar adenopathy and pulmonary fibrosis. * Cutaneous manifestations include erythema nodosum, a nonspecific lesion characterized by...

...56%), cardiac size/shape abnormalities (1.36%), emphysema (0.74%), subpleural fat (2.62%), fractured ribs (1.24%), hilar adenopathy (0.13%), ill-defined diaphragm (0.46%), ill-defined heart border (0.29%), Kerley lines (0.06%), pleural thickening...

...atelectasis. The nodule did not extend to the chest wall, and there was no associated pleural effusion. No significant hilar adenopathy was present, and no other lung nodules were seen. A percutaneous, computed tomography-guided fine needle aspiration...

...generalised shotty cervical lymphadenopathy and mild splenomegaly. Chest X-ray showed bilateral hazy infiltrates and hilar adenopathy. Laboratory tests showed: haemoglobin 3.6, mean corpuscular volume 68.3, white cell count 7, platelets 121, renal...

...occurs in the lungs in more than 90% of cases, with hilar adenopathy in about 75%. Pathologic study is required for a...Asymptomatic patients with sarcoidosis who have only hilar adenopathy but no associated disease do not need therapy, Dr...

...superior mediastinum (Fig. 2). the hilar adenopathy remained unchanged. A punch...this case, however, bilateral hilar adenopathy preceded the diagnosis of HD...remission of HD, mediastinal and hilar adenopathy have remained stable for over...

...PPD) test to rule out tuberculosis. If the PPD is negative and the chest x-ray demonstrates the classic bilateral hilar adenopathy, the patient should be referred for a pulmonary function test, plus a thallium scan if there is cardiac involvement...

...metastatic disease. At that point, the pathology from the appendix came back as small cell lung cancer. Chest CT revealed hilar adenopathy and a hilar mass. The patient received emergent whole-brain irradiation therapy with improvement in his mental status...

...Patients should be reassured that Lofgren's syndrome is benign and usually self-limited. Follow-up should continue until hilar adenopathy has resolved. Mana J, et al. Lofgren's syndrome revisited: a study of 186 patients. Am J Med September 1999;107:240...