A careful medical history can provide important clues to the diagnosis of a neck mass.1 The patient's age and the size and duration of the mass are the most significant predictors of neoplasia.1 The patient's age is most important, because the risk of malignancy becomes greater with increasing age.2
Shortness of breath is a common symptom. Some patients have troublesome dry cough and others may have pain in the chest. Tiredness, lethargy, listlessness and joint pains are common. Sarcoidosis may also cause fever and weight loss.
Shortness of breath, cough, chest pain and tightness are the most common complaints of sarcoidosis of the lungs. Whether you have symptoms or not, your chest x-ray will almost always be abnormal. Severe scarring (fibrosis of the lungs can cause respiratory failure.