FLEXIBLE-BRONCHOSCOPE BIOPSY OF LUNG AND BRONCHIAL WALL IN INTRATHORACIC SARCOIDOSIS
- 1 September 1976
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 278 (1), 522-527
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1976.tb47065.x
Abstract
1) Twenty of 25 patients (80%) with sarcoidosis had positive lung biopsies obtained by flexible-bronchoscope biopsy. 2) Three of the 5 negative biopsies were in patients with chronic sarcoidosis whose chest radiograph was unchanged for 1 yr or more. 3) Two insignificant pneumothoraces occurred as a complication of the bronchoscopic biopsy procedures. 4) Noncaseating epithelioid-cell granulomas found on fiberoptic bronchoscopic biopsy are no more specific for the diagnosis of sarcoidosis than similar findings in any other organ biopsy.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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