• DOI:10.1007/PL00007637
Corpus ID: 3999327

Serum Lysozyme Levels and Clinical Features of Sarcoidosis

@article{Tomita1999SerumLL,
  title={Serum Lysozyme Levels and Clinical Features of Sarcoidosis},
  author={H. Tomita and S. Sato and R. Matsuda and Y. Sugiura and H. Kawaguchi and T. Niimi and S. Yoshida and M. Morishita},
  journal={Lung},
  year={1999},
  volume={177},
  pages={161-167}
}

H. Tomita, S. Sato, +5 authors M. Morishita

Published 1999

Medicine

Lung

Abstract. Serum lysozyme is used as a marker of sarcoidosis disease activity. In this study we examined the association between lysozyme levels and the clinical features of sarcoidosis and thus the clinical usability of this parameter in a large population. One hundred ten sarcoidosis patients from central Japan were examined for clinical features and serum lysozyme level at the first visit to our hospital and on a regular basis thereafter. The sensitivity of lysozyme for predicting sarcoidosis… CONTINUE READING

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