Abstract
dc:descriptionTHE CLINICAL PICTURE, THE SEROLOGICAL AND HISTOLOGICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND THE VALUE OF SEVERAL DIAGNOSTIC METHODS HAVE BEEN STUDIED IN 33 CASES OF PATIENTS WITH SARCOIDOSIS. THE CONCLUSIONS OF THIS STUDY IS AS FOLLOWS: A) THERE IS NO ANY OBVIOUS PATHOGNOMONIC CHARACTERISTIC OF THE DISEASE WHICH CAN BE OBSERVED BY PHYSICAL EXAMINATION. B) THE CHEST ROENTGENOGRAM SHOWS SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS IN THE INTRATHORACIC INVOLVEMENT OF THE DISEASE. C) KVEIM REACTION IS POSITIVE ONLY IN SARCOIDOSIS AND THIS IS A SPECIFIC SKIN TEST FOR THE DISEASE. D)FOR THE VALUATION OF CUTANEOUS AVERGY WE HAVE TO USE APPROPRIATE SKIN TEST WITH CONTROLS. E) BIOPSY OF CLINICALLY SUSPICIOUS LESIONS MUST BE DONE BEFORE BIOPSY OF OTHER SITES. F) RANDOM BIOPSY OF MINOR SALIVARY GLAND FOR THE LOWER LIP IS A SIMPLE NON TRAUMATIC AND SAFE TECHNIQUE AND EVALUATED AS A DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE IN ESTABLISHING THE DIAGNOSIS OF SARCOIDOSIS. G) IMMUNOLOGICAL MECHANISMS ARE INVOLVED IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF SARCOIDOSIS. H) AUTOANTIBODIES ARE NOT TRACED IN THE SERA OF SARCOID PATIENTS.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Ioannina
- Year dc:date
- 1986
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Χαρατσή-Γιωτάκη, Ελένη
Subjects
dc:subject × 20- Autoimmunity
- Biopsies
- Diagnosis
- KVEIM TEST
- MINOR SALIVARY GLANTS BIOPSY
- Sarcoidosis
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Αυτοανοσία
- Βιοψία
- ΒΙΟΨΙΑ ΧΕΙΛΟΥΣ
- Διάγνωση
- Ιατρική
- Σαρκοείδωση
- Σύνδρομο Sjogren
- Ιατρική και Επιστήμες Υγείας
- Κλινική Ιατρική
- Επιστήμες Υγείας
- Medical and Health Sciences
- Clinical Medicine
- Health Sciences
Rights
- Language dc:language
- gre
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- 10.12681/eadd/0245
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:10442/0245