Conjunctival Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Sarcoidosis

Abstract

The clinical implications of the diagnosis of sarcoidosis go well beyond the labeling of a syndrome. This is true not only because the etiology is yet to be determined but also because the clinical manifestations of sarcoidosis are simulated by numerous infectious and noninfectious agents.1 Exact diagnosis is of more than academic importance, particularly since the advent of corticosteroid therapy for sarcoidosis, for these drugs are capable of disseminating many of the granulomatous diseases of infectious origin.2 Sarcoidosis presents clinically as a systemic disease in which involvement of the mediastinal and peripheral lymph nodes, lungs, liver, spleen, skin, eyes, phalangeal . . .