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.
Mac suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.