The pathology of pulmonary sarcoidosis: update

Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 150-161

  Ma, YanLing ^a   Gal, Anthony ^b   Koss, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid bodies; Calcium oxalate crystals; Extra pulmonary sarcoid; Nonnecrotizing epithelioid granulomas; Sarcoidosis; Schaumann's bodies

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EPITHELIOID CELL; GIANT CELL; GRANULOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SARCOIDOSIS; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRANULOMA; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; SARCOIDOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 34547732976     PISSN: 07402570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semdp.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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