Clinico-radiological and functional correlations in endothoracic sarcoidosis
Bercea, O.; Stoicescu, P.; Herman, P.
Revista de Igiena Bacteriologie Virusologie Parazitologie Epidemiologie Pneumoftiziologie. Pneumoftiziologia 29(1): 43-50
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0377-5011 PMID: 6248953 Document Number: 154728
Human cases on cutaneous testing was negative in 60% of cases, in accordance with the antimycobacterial fluorescent antibodies test. The insidious onset and evolution are noted, and the fact that the diagnosis was made on the occasion of routine investigations. Correlation of clinical signs with radiologic aspects did not reveal significant data, but correlation with functional tests revealed, in 8 of 11 cases presenting with dyspnea, an alteration of the respiratory function (an obstructive, a restrictive or a mixed syndrome). The importance of the diagnosis is stressed. Considering the application of treatment, diagnosis should not be delayed.