A tale of two cities.
This is a comparison of two large series of histologically-confirmed sarcoidosis-797 patients kept under supervision in Hamburg and 818 patients in London. There are a few differences but many striking similarities. The factual data in these two series should provide guidelines for present and future investigators recognising sarcoidosis as it emerges from obscurity in Africa, India and Asia.
D000328:Adult; D004893:Erythema Nodosum / Q000453:epidemiology; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014505:Urban Population