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COMPARISON OF CLINICAL AND LABORATORY FINDINGS OF INTRATHORACIC SARCOIDOSIS BETWEEN CHILDREN AND ADULTS *
Author(s) -
Niitu Yasutaka,
Horikawa Masahiro,
Suetake Tomiko,
Hasegawa Sumio,
Komatsu Shigeo
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1976.tb47067.x
Subject(s) - leprosy , medicine , tuberculosis , sarcoidosis , dermatology , pathology
Children were different from adults in the following findings of intrathoracic sarcoidosis: All of the 69 pediatric patients studied had no complaints and were found by chest x-ray examinations, in contrast with 71% of the 62 adult patients studied. At the ages 10-14 yr there were far more boys than girls. In pediatric patients eye involvements were rare, blood eosinophilia was more frequent, biopsy of conjunctival follicles was more frequently positive, cold serum hemagglutinins were higher at first and decreased later, and the prognosis was far better than in adults.