title: Diagnostic routes in cases with single involvement in eyes suspected of sarcoidosis.
abstract: The ocular involvement of sarcoidosis is particularly important in Japan, because 1. the frequency of the eye involvement is as high as 20 to 40%, higher than in other countries- 2. the presence of this involvement proved to be an influential factor relating to the whole sarcoidosis lesions of a patient, and 3. the patients with this involvement will become blind unless adequately treated. In diagnostic routines of ocular sarcoidosis, chest X-rays will give the most useful information of the disease. If the chest X-ray findings are normal, it is not easy to make a diagnosis of a case whose ocular findings are very suspicious of sarcoidosis. This paper will give several case experiences in which we could successfully make a diagnosis, using mediastinoscopical biopsies though the X-rays had no findings.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology