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.
Signs and Symptoms of Sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis is usually asymptomatic, which means there are no outward signs that the person has the disease. This is why so many cases of sarcoidosis are discovered by chance during a routine x-ray. When symptoms appear, the most common are: