New Frontiers in the Diagnosis of Sarcoidosis
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 35279
Special Issue Editors
Interests: internal Medicine; ultrasound; gastrenterology
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Interests: internal medicine; rare disorders; sarcoidosis; clinical imaging; ultrasound
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease that can affect every body organ to a different extent. Usually, the involvement of lung and intrathoracic lymph nodes dominates, but no tissue is virtually spared from the disease. The diagnostic role of imaging, such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance, is to reveal the presence of parenchymal infiltrates, lymphadenopathy, and also by documenting organ enlargement, nodular lesions, and patchy infiltration in extrapulmonary sites. The use of conventional ultrasound but even more that of contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) has been demonstrated to be useful to detect occult lesions and to describe the characteristics of some nodules that are not otherwise evident on the baseline examination. Finally, recent studies have highlighted that FDG PET/CT is also useful in staging the disease, in order to assess the presence of occult lesions, disease extent, treatment response and to identify the most suitable site for biopsy.
The aim of this Special Issue is to report an overview of the latest research on the diagnosis of Sarcoidosis. Authors are invited to submit original research articles and review papers about the diagnostic advances of imaging techniques that could assist clinicians in clinical practice.
Prof. Cosima Schiavone
Dr. Claudio Tana
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sarcoidosis
- Granuloma
- Infiltration
- Computed tomography
- Magnetic-resonance imaging
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound
- FDG-PET/CT