Idiopathic conditions, such as inflammatory pseudotumor, Kimura's disease, and Castleman's disease, can also present with a neck mass.22 â 24 A neck mass may also be the presenting symptom of sarcoidosis.25
Many people with sarcoidosis don't have type 1 diabetes as well, so it is unlikely that sarcoidosis caused it all alone. Most people who are going to manifest type 1 diabetes are diagnosed in childhood or their teenage years. Occasionally it will not manifest until adulthood.
Pneumonia is a lung disease, and the lungs of a patient with sarcoidosis are greatly weakened by the chronic intraphagocytic metagenomic bacteria that cause the illness. Though it is truly a deadly disease, Mac expressed little concern, publicly at least, about sarcoidosis.