title: [Bronchoscopic biopsies of sarcoidoses in the stage I and II (author's transl)].
abstract: The material of the present study includes 96 cases of intrathoracic sarcoidosis, phase I and II. Diagnosis was established bronchoscopically in 63.5% of patients examined. The best results were obtained by trans-bronchial needle-biopsy at bronchoscopy. In phase I, this method established the diagnosis in 76.5% of cases, in phase II in 48%, and in the whole material (phase I and II together) in 64.4%. Biopsy of the bronchial mucous membrane gave a lower percentage of diagnosis: in phase I--32.5%, in phase II 48.7%, and in the whole material--40.2%. Needle-biopsy of the lymph nodes and two or three bronchial biopsies simultaneously proved to be the method of choice: Sarcoidosis was diagnosed in 80% of cases in which these two methods were used. Bronchoscopic methods are effective, well tolerated and do not entail any serious complications.
mesh_terms: D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001999:Bronchoscopy; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014056:Tomography, X-Ray / Q000379:methods
vernacular_title: Les biopsies bronchoscopiques dans la sarcoïdose au stade I et II.