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Sarcoidosis: Occurs
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Pulmonary sarcoidosis is found mainly in adults between the ages of 20 and 40. Females tend to have slightly higher rates of sarcoidosis than males. Sarcoidosis appears to occur more commonly in nonsmokers than in smokers.3
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Pulmonary uptake of 67GA is sensitive but not specific in the diagnosis of pulmonary sarcoidosis as it can occur in a wide variety of other inflammatory and neoplastic diseases. Abnormal 67GA uptake in salivary and lacrimal glands may ... occur in Sjögren's syndrome, tuberculosis and after radiation therapy.
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In the USA , sarcoidosis occurs far more commonly in blacks than in whites, blacks often having more severe disease. It is unusual in Asians and Australian aborigines probably due to genetic factors incompletely understood.
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