Three colleagues with sarcoidosis?

Dear colleagues — and other colleagues

I reckon that taken together these excellent reviews exceed the number of words in What kinship is—and is not by a considerable margin. Moreover, considering that the range of these opinions on the proposed notion of kinship as mutuality of being runs from “intuitively graspable” to “fundamentally inscrutable,” the disorder being sown by this small book would seem to qualify it as an exercise i...

Sarcoidosis with granulomatous interstitial nephritis: report of three cases.

Three cases of sarcoidosis with granulomatous interstitial nephritis are reported. Patients were all male and over 50 years of age. They simultaneously had evidence of multiorgan involvement of sarcoidosis including lung and skin and/or eye. In addition, distinct features were found in each case: a granulomatous infiltration mimicking unilateral renal tumor (case 1); renal insufficiency solely ...

Sarcoidosis in childhood: report of three cases.

A STUDY OF 17 PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY SARCOIDOSIS IN MASHAD

Thirty patients with bilateral lymph node enlargement with or without parenchymal infiltrates on the chest x- ray suspected to have sarcoidosis were studied between June 1980 and December 1989 in our institution. Eleven of these patients who were free of parenchymal infiltrates did not have a biopsy performed and the diagnosis of sarcoidosis was made based on self-limited regression and cl...

The conduct of colleagues.

Clinical scenario Mrs X attends the clinic for removal of her intrauterine device (IUD). She explains that she had it inserted as emergency contraception and now wants it removed with this period. While on the couch, she confides that her general practitioner (GP), a close friend, had fitted the IUD in his own home to avoid anyone in the village knowing about her need. She had been away to a co...