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Sarcoidosis is a disease whose cause is unknown. It can affect almost any body organ, but it starts most often in the lungs or lymph nodes. The disease was independently identified over 100 years ago by Jonathan Hutchinson and Caesar Boeck. The name sarcoidosis comes from the Greek words sark and oid, meaning flesh-like, which describe the skin eruptions of the illness.
Sarcoidosis  granulomas appear in almost every body organ but most often in the lungs or lymph nodes. In the majority of cases, these granulomas clear up on its own, either with or without treatment. When granulomas go on, the tissues tend to become fibrotic.
Dyspnea and cough can be the first symptoms of sarcoidosis. But sarcoidosis can also show up erythema nodosum and uveitis. Sometimes general symptom like fever, weight loss and fatigue can occur. Corticosteroids have been the standard treatment for many years. In some patients, this treatment can slow or reverse the course of the disease, but other patients do not respond to steroid therapy. The use of corticosteroids in mild disease is controversial because in many cases the disease remits spontaneously.
More severe symptoms are treated with azathioprine and methotrexate or with infliximab. 

Key words: Sarcoidosis; granuloma; lymphopathy; dyspnea