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Sarcoidosis (or sarcoid) is an immune system disorder characterised by non-necrotising granulomas (small inflammatory nodules). Virtually any organ can be affected, however, granulomas most often appear in the lungs (D860) or the lymph nodes (D861). Symptoms can occasionally appear suddenly but more often than not appear gradually. When viewing X-rays of the lungs, sarcoidosis can have the appearance of tuberculosis or lymphoma. Epidemiology Sarcoidosis occurs throughout the world in an ...
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Sarcoidosis Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- American Association for Clinical Chemistry
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
- American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America
- American Lung Association http://www.lungusa.org/
- Arthritis Foundation http://www.arthritis.org/
- National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- University of Maryland Medical Center http://www.umm.edu/
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