title: [SOME VARIANTS OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTIC DIFFICULTIES IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AND SARCOIDOSIS].
abstract: Three hundred and thirty-two patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis were examined in 2005 to 2008. Atypical disposition of chest X-ray changes was found in 32 patients. In these cases physicians encounter the greatest difficulties in the differential diagnosis of sarcoidosis. The patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis were found to have 2 clinical and X-ray variants according to the location of X-ray changes. Four clinical histories of difficult cases of the differential diagnosis of pulmonary sarcoidosis are given.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003951:Diagnostic Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic / Q000379:methods; D017565:Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology