Sarcoidosis

1. Front Matter

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2. Historical Survey

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   Pages 1-12

3. Pathology

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   Pages 13-35

4. Definition

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   Pages 36-42

5. Prevalence, Incidence and Modes of Presentation

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   Pages 43-71

6. Erythema Nodosum, Febrile Arthropathy and Bilateral Hilar Lymphadenopathy

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   Pages 72-100

7. Lung Changes

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   Pages 101-180

8. Sarcoidosis of the skin

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   Pages 181-206

9. Ocular Changes

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   Pages 207-226

10. Bones, Joints and Skeletal Muscles

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    Pages 227-251

11. Superficial Lymphadenopathy

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    Pages 252-259

12. The Liver

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    Pages 260-273

13. The Spleen and the Blood

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    Pages 274-289

14. The Upper Respiratory Tract

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    Pages 290-301

15. The Nervous System

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    Pages 302-328

16. The Heart

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    Pages 329-348

17. The Endocrine Glands

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    Pages 349-365

18. The Gastro-intestinal tract

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    Pages 366-378

19. The Genito-urinary System, excluding Kidney; the Breast

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    Pages 379-389

20. The Kidneys and Calcium Metabolism

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    Pages 390-413

Since the first edition of this book in 1967, interest in sarcoidosis has increased world-wide, leading to increasing numbers of published clinical, epidemiological and laboratory studies, notably in immunology and in the pathogenesis of granulomatous inflammation. Aseries of international con­ ferences which started as an informal gathering in London in. 1958 has continued at approximately three-yearly intervals with increasing numbers of participants and more formal organisation, and the proceedings of all but the first have been published. When the preparation of a second edition was suggested to me, I consi­ dered several questions. ls there still a piace for a comprehensive, clinically­ orientated book on sarcoidosis? Although the reports of the international conferences bring together research reports and some reviews of topics of contemporary interest, they are useful principally to specialists in the sub­ ject; and, like the original papers scattered through many journals, are not convenient sources of reference for clinicians. Continued enquiries about the availability of the first edition long after it had gone out of print suggested that it had provided such a source. I therefore concluded that a second edition should be prepared, and then had to consider whether, as a physician retired from academic and hospital appointments, I was the right person to undertake the major task of incorporating in it the still-relevant parts of the first edition, the considerable amount of new information that had accumulated since 1967, and a conspectus of current studies.

• immunology
• inflammation
• muscle
• pathogenesis
• pathology
• skin

• Brompton Hospital and Hammersmith Hospital, University of London, UK

  J. G. Scadding

• MRC Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Unit, Brompton Hospital and Central Middlesex Hospital, Cardiothoracic Institute, University of London, UK

  D. N. Mitchell

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