[Thyroid disorders and sarcoidosis].
Thyroid disorders were detected in 3.7% of our 269 cases of sarcoidosis histologically confirmed. This is close to the rate in the literature. As a probability of this complication that some of closely allied autoimmune disorder may relate both disease, except by chance. In 2 of our cases, these diseases appeared alternately as follows. A 49 years old woman suffered from granular-hard struma with hypothyroid from 4 years ago when sarcoidosis had completely healed. On the other side, a 55 years old woman had the apparent struma for about 16 years from her 6 years of age and gradually disappeared after the signs of sarcoidosis became apparent. She also had a Basedow's patient in her family.
Kobayashi
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Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Dept. of Internal Medicine.
Oritsu
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Kosuda
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000473:pathology*; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000473:pathology*