title: Conjunctival biopsy as an aid in the evaluation of the patient with suspected sarcoidosis.
abstract: Conjunctival biopsy is an underused but simple technique in the evaluation of the patient with sarcoidosis and occasionally other systemic diseases. In 55% of patients with biopsy-proven sarcoidosis from other sites, a blind conjunctival biopsy was positive. Bilateral conjunctival biopsies and the examination of multiple sections of each biopsy were essential to obtain this high of a yield. There was no relationship between an anterior uveitis and a positive conjunctival biopsy.
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000473:pathology*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000473:pathology*