Voen Med Zh. 2002 May; 323(5): 40-2, 112.

[Diagnosis and principles of complex therapy of sarcoidosis]

L'vov SI, Fedotov VP, Levchenko GI, Katin VA.

The diagnosis and therapy of 87 patients with sarcoidosis admitted to the Central Military Clinical Tubercular Hospital were analyzed. The diagnosis was based on the data of clinicoroentgenologic investigation and histologic examination of the specimen taken from the affected tissue. The differential diagnosis with tuberculosis is obligatory. The complex therapy includes corticosteroids, antioxydants, phytotherapy, physiotherapeutic methods and in some cases plasmapheresis.