Sarcoidosis differential diagnosis

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Differential Diagnosis

Sarcoidosis has many differentials, which can be classified depending on the organ involved.

Lung

1.Tuberculosis 2.Atypical Mycobacteriosis 3.Cryptococcosis 4.Aspergillosis 5.Aspiration of foriegn materials 6.Blastomycosis 7.Pneumocystitis carinii 8.Pneumoconiosis 9.Drug reactions 10.Hypersensitivity pneumonitis 11.Drug reactions12..Histoplasmosis 13.Chronic interstitial pneumonia as usual and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia 14.Necrotizing sarcoid granulomatosis 15.Wegner's granulomatosis

Lymph Node

1.Tuberculosis 2.Atypical Mycobacteriosis 3.Brucellosis 4.GLUS syndrome 5.Cat scratch disease 6.Toxoplasmosis 7.Hodgkin disease 8.Non Hodgkin lymphoma 9.Sarcoid reaction in lymph nodes to carcinoma 10.Kikuchi disease(granulomatous histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis)

Skin

1.Tuberculosis 2.Atypical mycobacteriosis 3.Fungal infection 4.Rheumatoid nodules 6.Reaction to foreign bodies

Liver

1.Tuberculosis 2.Brucellosis 3.Schitosomiasis 4.Crohn's disease 5.Hodgkin's disease 6. Non hodgkin's lymphoma 7.GLUS syndrome 8.Primary biliary cirrhosis

Bone Marrow

1.Tuberculosis 2.Histoplasmosis 3.Cytomegalovirus 4.Drugs 5.Infectious Mononucleosis 6.GLUS syndrome 7.Hodgkin's disease 8.Non Hodgkin's lymphoma

Other biopsy sites

1.Tuberculosis 2.Brucellosis 3.Crohn's disease 4.GLUS Syndrome 5.Other infections 6.Giant cell myocarditis