SARCOIDOSIS COMPLICATED BY CHYLOTHORAX

Chylothorax is a rare complication of sarcoidosis; only one well-docum ented case has been described previously. Before chylothoraxis diagnos ed in a patient with sarcoidosis, infection and malignancy need to be aggressively excluded as possible diagnoses. We report the case of a 3 4-year-old black woman with sarcoidosis confirmed by lung, pleural, an d mediastinal lymph node biopsies whose clinical course was complicate d by chylothorax. Oral corticosteroid treatment resulted in prompt res olution of the chylothorax.