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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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Resources
- American Lung Association
- American Lung Association Factsheet: African Americans and Lung Disease (American Lung Association)
- Arthritis Foundation
- Calcium Test (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Sarcoidosis (National Institutes of Health)
- Gallium Scan (National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center) - Links to PDF File
- How Do the Lungs Work? (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute)
- How Sarcoidosis is Diagnosed (Cleveland Clinic)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Neurosarcoidosis (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
- Neurosarcoidosis (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Overview of Sarcoidosis (Cleveland Clinic)
- Prednisone (Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America) - Links to PDF File
- Radiography -- Chest (Chest X-ray) (Radiological Society of North America)
- Sarcoidosis (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
- Sarcoidosis (American Lung Association)
- Sarcoidosis (Arthritis Foundation)
- Sarcoidosis (National Institutes of Health)
- Sarcoidosis (MayoClinic)
- Sarcoidosis (Cleveland Clinic)
- Sarcoidosis (University of Maryland Medical Center)
- Sarcoidosis (National Women's Health Information Center)
- Sarcoidosis (Medline Plus)
- Sarcoidosis and Your Lungs (Cleveland Clinic)
- Sarcoidosis and Your Organs (Cleveland Clinic)
- Sarcoidosis FAQs (Cleveland Clinic)
- Sarcoidosis Glossary (Cleveland Clinic)
- Sarcoidosis Resources (Cleveland Clinic)
- Sarcoidosis Treatment Options (Cleveland Clinic)
- Sarcoidosis [Interactive Tutorial] (Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player
- What is Sarcoidosis (Cleveland Clinic)
- What is Sarcoidosis (spanish) (Cleveland Clinic)
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