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  • Title: Flexible-bronchoscope biopsy of lung and bronchial wall in intrathoracic sarcoidosis.
    Author: Teirstein AS, Chuang M, Miller A, Siltzbach LE.
    Journal: Ann N Y Acad Sci; 1976; 278():522-7. PubMed ID: 1067036.
    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.
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