[67Ga scintigraphy in acute sarcoidosis with Heerfordt's syndrome].

Sarcoidosis is a chronic multisystem disorder of unknown etiology characterized by non-caseating epitheloid granulomas. We report a case of a 29-year old female with acute sarcoidosis and Heerfordt's syndrome (parotid enlargement, anterior uveitis and facial nerve palsy) who had a typical clinical constellation but no histologic criteria of a granulomatous inflammatory process in transbronchial lung biopsy. 67Ga scintigraphy revealed such a typical pattern of accumulation that sarcoidosis could be diagnosed despite negative histological findings.