The puzzling clinical spectrum and course of juvenile sarcoidosis

World Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 103-110

  Fretzayas, Andrew ^a   Moustaki, Maria ^a   Vougiouka, Olga ^b  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

corticosteroids; early onset sarcoidosis; juvenile sarcoidosis; late onset sarcoidosis; methotrexate

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CASPASE RECRUITMENT DOMAIN PROTEIN 15; CHITOTRIOSIDASE; CHLORAMBUCIL; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; MELATONIN; METHOTREXATE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; THALIDOMIDE;

ARTHRITIS; BLAU SYNDROME; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; HILAR LYMPHADENOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; JUVENILE SARCOIDOSIS; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG INFILTRATE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RASH; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; UVEITIS;

CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; METHOTREXATE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; SYNOVITIS; UVEITIS;

EID: 79956342116     PISSN: 17088569     EISSN: 18670687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12519-011-0261-0     Document Type: Review

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