Sarcoidosis: Challenging diagnostic aspects of an old disease

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-125

  Spagnolo, Paolo ^a   Luppi, Fabrizio ^a   Roversi, Pietro ^a   Cerri, Stefania ^a   Fabbri, Leonardo Michele ^a   Richeldi, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Granuloma; Lymphoma; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Sarcoidosis

Indexed keywords

PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SPLENECTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS;

AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ASCITIC FLUID; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SARCOIDOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84856094052     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.06.003     Document Type: Review

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