Sarcoidosis
"Sarcoidosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An idiopathic systemic inflammatory granulomatous disorder comprised of epithelioid and multinucleated giant cells with little necrosis. It usually invades the lungs with fibrosis and may also involve lymph nodes, skin, liver, spleen, eyes, phalangeal bones, and parotid glands.
| Descriptor ID |
D012507
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C15.604.515.827
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| Concept/Terms |
Sarcoidosis- Sarcoidosis
- Sarcoidoses
- Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann Syndrome
- Besnier Boeck Schaumann Syndrome
- Syndrome, Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann
- Boeck Disease
- Schaumann's Syndrome
- Schaumann's Syndromes
- Syndrome, Schaumann's
- Boeck's Sarcoid
- Boeck Sarcoid
- Boecks Sarcoid
- Sarcoid, Boeck's
- Schaumann Disease
- Disease, Schaumann
- Schaumann Syndrome
- Syndrome, Schaumann
- Besnier-Boeck Disease
- Besnier Boeck Disease
- Boeck's Disease
- Boecks Disease
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sarcoidosis" by people in Profiles.
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Dunlap CL, Friesen CA, Shultz R. Chronic stomatitis: an early sign of Crohn's disease. J Am Dent Assoc. 1997 Mar; 128(3):347-8.