Will a biopsy show sarcoidosis?
Will a biopsy show sarcoidosis? Pulmonary biopsy via open thoracotomy is the most definitive diagnostic procedure and will reveal noncaseating granulomas in essentially all cases of sarcoidosis, even in the absence of radiographic pulmonary infiltrates. Can a lung biopsy diagnose sarcoidosis? Transbronchial lung biopsies have become an important tool in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis in present time and it has brought out those cases, which were not diagnosed previously. Where is a sarcoid biopsy done? Aytemur et al (12) found peripheral lymphadenopathy in eight of 77 sarcoidosis cases (10.4%), and supraclavicular lymph node biopsy was performed in three of the...