Abstract:
:The classic chest radiograph, showing bilateral hilar and right paratracheal adenopathy, is found in half of sarcoidosis patients. Pulmonary infiltrates are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Extrapulmonary disease may be found in the skin, eyes, liver and heart, and in the nervous, musculoskeletal and other systems. Despite myriad pathologic and biochemical abnormalities, the typical patient is asymptomatic. Most patients with symptomatic sarcoidosis benefit from steroid therapy; in some, however, the disease progresses inexorably.
journal_name
Am Fam Physicianjournal_title
American family physicianauthors
Zelitch SR,Israel HLsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1988-08-01 00:00:00pages
127-39issue
2eissn
0002-838Xissn
1532-0650journal_volume
38pub_type
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journal_title:American family physician
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journal_title:American family physician
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更新日期:1997-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1981-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
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journal_title:American family physician
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更新日期:2001-11-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1996-05-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
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更新日期:1997-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1979-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1983-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2004-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:1991-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1989-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00
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doi:
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journal_title:American family physician
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更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
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doi:
更新日期:2001-09-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:American family physician
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journal_title:American family physician
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