Diagnosis of corticosteroid resistant ocular sarcoidosis by chorioretinal biopsy
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Diagnosis of ocular sarcoidosis.
INTRODUCTION Sarcoidosis is a chronic inflammatory disorder with an unknown etiology characterized by noncaseating granulomas. The disorder is a multisystemic disease and affects many organs, including most often the lung, lymph nodes, skin, heart, liver, muscles, and the eye. MATERIAL AND METHODS [corrected] Based on a review of the literature and on an algorithm generated in an internationa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.83.4.e501