The New England journal of medicine
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N. Engl. J. Med.
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To evaluate the efficacy of transbronchial lung biopsy in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis, 26 consecutive patients with clinical features of sarcoidosis underwent this procedure during fiberoptic bronchoscopy. In 21, the biopsy revealed noncaseating granuloma and, in the remaining five, normal lung parenchyma. ⋯ The only complication was one 20 per cent pneumothorax, which resolved spontaneously. Because of its low morbidity rate, high diagnostic yield and specificity transbronchial lung biopsy is recommended as one of the initial procedures for obtaining histologic confirmation in patients with suspected sarcoidosis.
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