Sarcoidosis of lungs in a child aged 12

The clinical observation of 12-year-old patient with sarcoidosis is described. This disease is extremely rare in children. Initially pneumonia was diagnosed in a boy, then the necessity of conducting of differential diagnostics between sarcoidosis and tuberculosis was appeared. The final diagnosis-sarcoidosis of lungs was diagnosed on the basis of comprehensive clinical and laboratory examination taking into account focus-infiltrative changes in lungs, intoxication, involvement of T-immunity system and also revealing of granulomas by morphological study of biopsy material, having distinctive characteristics typical for sarcoidosis