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SUBMITTER: Palmucci S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4956623 | biostudies-other | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Palmucci Stefano S Torrisi Sebastiano Emanuele SE Caltabiano Daniele Carmelo DC Puglisi Silvia S Lentini Viviana V Grassedonio Emanuele E Vindigni Virginia V Reggio Ester E Giuliano Riccardo R Micali Giuseppe G Caltabiano Rosario R Andreula Cosma C Foti Pietro Valerio PV Ettorre Giovanni Carlo GC Walsh Simon Lf SL Vancheri Carlo C
Insights into imaging 20160525 4
<h4>Unlabelled</h4>The aim of this manuscript is to describe radiological findings of extra-pulmonary sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis is an immune-mediated systemic disease of unknown origin, characterized by non-caseating epitheliod granulomas. Ninety percent of patients show granulomas located in the lungs or in the related lymph nodes. However, lesions can affect any organ. Typical imaging features of liver and spleen sarcoidosis include visceromegaly, with multiple nodules hypodense on CT images an ...[more]