Unilateral Pleural Thickening

Abstract

A 32-year-old African-American man with a prior diagnosis of biopsy-proven sarcoidosis presented in July, 1994, with a complaint of increasing dyspnea on exertion, decreased exercise tolerance, and a mild nonproductive cough over the preceding 3 months. His original diagnosis had been made in 1991 when he developed left eye discomfort and a lacrimal gland biopsy confirmed sarcoidosis. He was subsequently found to have involvement in his sinuses and left scrotum, but he had not had intrathoracic disease.