Pulmonary sarcoidosis associated with psoriasis vulgaris: Coincidental occurrence or causal association? Case report

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nikolopoulou, Melita ^a   Katsenos, Stamatis ^a   Psathakis, Kostas ^a   Rallis, Efstathios ^a   Sampaziotis, Dimitrios ^a   Panagou, Panagiotis ^a   Tsintiris, Kostas ^a   Bouros, Demosthenes ^b  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANKLE EDEMA; ANKLE PAIN; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG RESPONSE; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE; BRONCHOSCOPY; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSORIASIS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 33847231305     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-6-26     Document Type: Article

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