Sarcoidosis of the skin: A review for the pulmonologist

Chest

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 583-596

  Lodha, Saurabh ^a,b   Sanchez, Miguel ^a   Prystowsky, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; CALCIUM; CHLOROQUINE; CLOBETASOL; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ETANERCEPT; GOLD; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR; ISOTRETINOIN; METHOTREXATE; MINOCYCLINE; NEOPTERIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PREDNISONE; SULFONAMIDE; SULFONYLUREA DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; THALIDOMIDE; TRIAMCINOLONE; ULOBETASOL PROPIONATE;

ATROPHIC SARCOIDOSIS; CALCIUM URINE LEVEL; DARIER ROUSSY SARCOIDOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG SAFETY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; ERYTHRODERMIC SARCOIDOSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTED SARCOIDOSIS; ICHTHYOSIFORM SARCOIDOSIS; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; NAIL SARCOIDOSIS; OPTIMAL DRUG DOSE; PAPULAR RASH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SCAR SARCOIDOSIS; SKIN MANIFESTATION; ULCERATIVE SARCOIDOSIS; VERRUCOUS SARCOIDOSIS;

EID: 68849129620     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.08-1527     Document Type: Article

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