[
    {
        "id": "osp-1250",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Diagnostic Difficulties in Differentiating Sarcoidosis from Tuberculosis",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Badar",
                "given": "Farheen"
            },
            {
                "family": "Azfar",
                "given": "Shah Farhan"
            },
            {
                "family": "Ahmad",
                "given": "Ibne"
            },
            {
                "family": "Yasmeen",
                "given": "Shagufta"
            },
            {
                "family": "Kirmani",
                "given": "Sanna"
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/en/articles/diagnostic-difficulties-in-differentiating-sarcoidosis-from-tuberculosis",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2011
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Oman Medical Journal",
        "DOI": "10.5001/omj.2011.53",
        "publisher": "Oman Medical Specialty Board",
        "ISSN": "1999-768X",
        "abstract": "Distinguishing sarcoidosis from pulmonary tuberculosis can sometimes be a great challenge to physicians, especially in developing countries where there is high prevalence of tuberculosis. Both tuberculosis and sarcoidosis are granulomatous diseases, however, tuberculosis has a caseating granuloma as opposed to sarcoidosis, which present with non-caseating epithelioid cell granuloma. Due to the marked clinico-radiological similarity of these entities and high prevalence of tuberculosis, these patients receive repeated courses of anti-tubercular therapy (ATT) while lung damage continues to progress."
    }
]