Disseminated Histoplasmosis with Miliary Histoplasmosis, Neurohistoplasmosis, and Histoplasma capsulatum Bacteremia in Probable Neurosarcoidosis by Peter V. Bui

“…Neurosarcoidosis, either isolated or as part of systemic sarcoidosis, is an uncommon entity and has diagnostic uncertainty. …”
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Atypical Clinical Presentation of Isolated Extraocular Muscle Sarcoid by Wing Lung Alvin So, Thomas G. Hardy, Penelope McKelvie

“…The presentation of minimal symptoms without improvement warrant a biopsy to establish the diagnosis and to administer appropriate treatment in order to prevent potential long-term complications from sarcoidosis.…”
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Multicentric Cutaneous Crohn's Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Robert Prokopetz, J Barrie Ross, Peter Smith, Joseph J Sidorov

“…Twenty-three cases with specific Crohn's disease in the skin have been recorded in the past 25 years, since the condition has been recognized. Sarcoidosis has been a common misdiagnosis. The literature relating to multicentric Crohn's disease is reviewed and attention drawn to its protean and masquerading features. …”
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Idiopathic Orofacial Granulomatosis with Varied Clinical Presentation by Rathy Ravindran, Anila Karunakaran

“…The medical history is very important as Crohn’s disease and sarcoidosis can present oral manifestation. Other causes like mycobacterial infection, foreign body reaction, fungal infection, and allergy were excluded with further investigation to establish diagnosis. …”
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Detection of the Dimorphic Phases of Mucor circinelloides in Blood Cultures from an Immunosuppressed Female by Miguel A. Arroyo, Bryan H. Schmitt, Thomas E. Davis, Ryan F. Relich

“…We describe a case of Mucor circinelloides fungemia in a patient with a history of a sinus infection, sarcoidosis, and IgG deficiency. The identity of the isolate was supported by its microscopic morphology and its ability to convert into yeast forms under anaerobic conditions. …”
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Isolated Neurosarcoidosis Presenting as Chronic Progressive Pachymeningitis by Joshua Abata, Danielle Bazer, Nicholas Koroneos, Olga Syritsyna

“…Neurologic manifestations of sarcoidosis are rare, and even rarer still are cases of isolated neurosarcoidosis. …”
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TINU: A Multisystemic Inflammatory Disorder—Case Report and Literature Review by Juan Montejo-Hernández, Jorge Rico-Fontalvo, Jose Cabrales, Shuchi Anand, María Cristina Martínez-Ávila, Claudia Duran-Merino, Luis Arias-Restrepo, Camilo Andrés Gómez Duran

“…TINU is a rare disorder that needs to be distinguished from sarcoidosis, Sjogren’s disease, and tuberculosis. Treatment is indicated in patients with progressive renal insufficiency, consisting of steroid therapy. …”
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Adalimumab (TNFα Inhibitor) Therapy Exacerbates IgA Glomerulonephritis Acute Renal Injury and Induces Lupus Autoantibodies in a Psoriasis Patient by S. S. Wei, R. Sinniah

“…Use of TNFα inhibitors is associated with the induction of autoimmunity (systemic lupus erythematosus, vasculitis, and sarcoidosis or sarcoid-like granulomas) (Ramos-Casals et al. (2010)). …”
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Gender and Ocular Manifestations of Connective Tissue Diseases and Systemic Vasculitides by Maria M. Choudhary, Rula A. Hajj-Ali, Careen Y. Lowder

“…There is a slight female preponderance in sarcoidosis with female gender carrying a worse prognosis in the outcome of ocular disease.…”
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Sarcoid-Like Mediastinal Lymphadenopathy in Gynecologic Malignancy by Bilal H. Lashari, Megumi Asai, Gissele Randleman, Martha Sack, Rajeshkumar Patel

“…Patients with a history of sarcoidosis or fungal or mycobacterial infection were excluded. …”
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Bilateral Chylothorax as a Unique Presentation of Pancreaticobiliary or Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer by Nooraldin Merza, John Lung, Mazin Saadaldin, Tarek Naguib

“…Other causes include malignancy, sarcoidosis, goiter, AIDS, or tuberculosis. Here we present a case of a 66-year-old male who came in with cough and shortness of breath for few weeks. …”
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Successful Management of Immune Thrombocytopenia Presenting with Lethal Alveolar Hemorrhage by Keiki Nagaharu, Masahiro Masuya, Keiki Kawakami, Naoyuki Katayama

“…These patients had the following underlying pulmonary diseases: case 1, nontuberculous mycobacterial infection and sarcoidosis; case 2, cryptogenic organizing pneumonia; case 3, pulmonary emphysema. …”
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Diagnostics and Cardiovascular Risk Assessment by Patrycja S. Matusik, Katarzyna Mikrut, Amira Bryll, Tadeusz J. Popiela, Paweł T. Matusik

“…Novel CMR techniques, such as T1 and T2 mapping, may be used for the longitudinal follow-up of myocardial fibrosis and myocardial edema or inflammation in different groups of patients, including patients with systemic sclerosis, myocarditis, cardiac sarcoidosis, amyloidosis, and both ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, among others. …”
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Telediagnosis of Transbronchial Fine Needle Aspirations – A Feasibility Study by K. Kayser, G. Kayser, H. D. Becker, F. Herth

“…Benign diseases (2 tuberculosis and 3 sarcoidosis cases) were correctly classified. Conclusions: Telepathology systems can probably be used for fine needle aspiration analysis without major diagnostic errors. …”
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Cyanoacrylate Associated Foreign Body Granulomatous Gastritis: A Report of Three Cases by Gunes Guner, Olcay Kurtulan, Taylan Kav, Cenk Sokmensuer, Gokhan Gedikoglu, Aytekin Akyol

“…Granulomas are rarely seen in gastric biopsies mostly as an involvement of granulomatous diseases like sarcoidosis, Crohn’s disease, infections, neoplasms, and vasculitis. …”
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Elevated Adiponectin Serum Levels in Women with Systemic Autoimmune Diseases by Éric Toussirot, Béatrice Gaugler, Malika Bouhaddi, Nhu Uyen Nguyen, Philippe Saas, Gilles Dumoulin

“…In this study, we assessed the serum levels of leptin, adiponectin, and ghrelin, in association with the measurements of body composition, in 15 female patients with various autoimmune diseases (systemic lupus erythematosus, primary Sjögren's syndrome, sarcoidosis, mixed connective tissue disease, vasculitis, CREST syndrome, and polymyositis) and in 15 healthy female controls. …”
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Assessment and follow-up of interstitial lung disease by Devarasetti Phani Kumar

“…Screening guidelines based on expert opinion are available for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-IPF ILDs (sarcoidosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and systemic sclerosis). …”
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Multiple Transverse Colonic Perforations Associated with Slow-Release Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Corticosteroids: A Case Report by Nobuki Shioya, Shigehiro Shibata, Masahiro Kojika, Shigeatsu Endo

“…The patient was a 36-year-old woman with sarcoidosis and Sjogren's syndrome, and had been prescribed slow-release diclofenac sodium and prednisolone for the treatment of pain associated with uveitis and erythema nodosum. …”
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Diagnostic value and safety of contact laser-assisted endobronchial ultrasound-guided tunnel drilling biopsy in mediastinal and hilar lymphadenopathy: a retrospective study by Wenyu Zhan, Tian Wang, Changqing Yang, Yubao Wang, Nansheng Wan, Jing Feng

“…The diagnostic rates (p-values) for EBUS-TDB and EBUS-TBNA in pulmonary and extrapulmonary malignancies, lymphoma, sarcoidosis, and lymph node tuberculosis were 96.6% vs. 76.3% (0.043), 100% vs. 67.7% (−), 88.9% vs. 31.1% (0.555), and 69.2% vs. 30.8% (0.049), respectively. …”
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Celiac Artery Compression Syndrome: An Experience in a Single Institution in Taiwan by Jen-Wei Chou, Chih-Ming Lin, Chun-Lung Feng, Chun-Fu Ting, Ken-Sheng Cheng, Yung-Fang Chen

“…Moreover, some authors also reported the compression with different etiologies, such as neoplasms of pancreatic head, adjacent duodenal carcinoma, vascular aneurysms, aortic dissection, or sarcoidosis. In the literature, most cases of CACS were reported from Western countries. …”
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