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Diagnosis and Detection of Sarcoidosis
Key Points
Key Points
- a compatible clinical presentation
- finding non-necrotizing granulomatous inflammation in one or more tissue samples
- the exclusion of alternative causes of granulomatous disease.
Diagnosis
...gnosis...
...Node Sampling
...for whom there is a high clinical suspicion...
...presenting with asymptomatic, bilateral...
...nts with suspected sarcoidosis and media...
...creening for Extrapulmonary Diseas...
...with sarcoidosis who do not have ocular sym...
...r patients with sarcoidosis who ha...
...nts with sarcoidosis who have neither he...
...nts with sarcoidosis who have neither hepati...
...with sarcoidosis who do not have symp...
...ssessment of vitamin metabolism is deemed...
...he ATS suggests that patients with sarcoidosis und...
...r patients with extracardiac sarcoidosi...
...patients with extracardiac sarcoidosis w...
...ic Evaluation of Suspected Extrapulmonary Diseas...
...r patients with extracardiac sarcoidosis and susp...
...ith extracardiac sarcoidosis and suspecte...
...atients with sarcoidosis in whom pul...
...tients with sarcoidosis in whom PH is susp...
...ents with sarcoidosis in whom PH is suspected a...
...ble 1. Clinical Features Supportive of a Di...
...le 2. Key Pathological Features of Sarc...
...mparison of pulmonary sarcoidosis gr...
...Key Infectious and Noninfectious Differen...
...Key Differential Diagnoses for Sarcoidosi...
...le 5. Best Practice Recommendations for De...
...re 2. Typical ECG and radiographic f...
...Schematic of recommended diagnostic algori...