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granulomatous disease
Etiology:
- Diseases associated with the formation of granulomas:
1) sarcoidosis
2) tuberculosis: granulomas may have a central area of necrosis (caseous necrosis) rare in other granulomatous diseases
3) fungal infections
4) brucellosis
5) tularemia
6) syphilis
7) leprosy
8) Hodgkin's disease
9) drug reactions
10) vasculitis
11) cat scratch disease
12) berylliosis
13) lymphogranuloma inguinale
Pathology:
- granulomas contain macrophages that possess CYP27B1, the 25-hydroxyvitamin D-1 alpha hydroxylase that forms calcitriol from calcifediol, resulting in hypercalcemia
Related
granuloma
Specific
berylliosis
botryomycosis
bronchocentric granulomatosis
brucellosis
cerebral granulomatous angiitis
chronic granulomatous disease
donovanosis (granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum)
granulomatosis with polyangiitis; Wegener's granulomatosis
Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH); histiocytosis X
leprosy (Hansen's disease)
lymphogranuloma venereum (inguinale); Favre-Durand-Nicholas disease; tropical bubo
malakoplakia
midline granuloma (facial granuloma)
mycosis; fungal infection
rhinosporidiosis
sarcoidosis
syphilis
tuberculosis
General
disease
References
- Internal Medicine, J Stein (ed), Little, Brown & Co, Boston, 1983,
pg 1091
- Cotran et al Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease,
5th ed. W.B. Saunders Co, Philadelphia, PA 1994 pg 82
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 16,
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2012
- Sharma OP.
Hypercalcemia in granulomatous disorders: a clinical review.
Curr Opin Pulm Med. 2000 Sep;6(5):442-7.
PMID: 10958237