Can tuberculosis cause sarcoidosis? New techniques try to answer an old question

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Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 363-364

  Baughman, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031864532     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.114.2.363     Document Type: Editorial

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