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sarcoidosis
Monday 22 September 2003
Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology, associated with an accumulation of CD4+ T cells and a TH1 immune response.
Links
Sarcoidosis in The Yale Rosen Collection of Pulmonary Pathology on Flickr
Localization
pulmonary sarcoidosis nodal sarcoidosis hepatic sarcoidosis salivary sarcoidosis
Types
early-onset sarcoidosis induced by recombinant interferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) (IFN-associated sarcoidosis) (#15958865#)
Susceptibility loci
truncating splice site mutation in BTNL2 gene (#15735647#) CARD15 mutations in early-onset sarcoidosis HLA-DRB1 locus (#12934202#)
References
Iannuzzi MC, Rybicki BA, Teirstein AS. Sarcoidosis. N Engl J Med. 2007 Nov 22;357(21):2153-65. PMID: #18032765#
