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Sarcoidosis in identical twins1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Howard E. Allen

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The simultaneous occurrence of sarcoidosis in two 24yearold white men who where enzygotic twins is reported. Manifestations of the disease as well as its clinical course were identical in both twins.

Riassunto

Riassunto

Viene descritta una coppia di gemelli monozigotici di razza bianca aventi 24 anni i quali presentano simultaneamente sarcoidosi. Le manifestazioni della malattia come pure il suo decorso clinico furono identici in entrambi i gemelli.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 1957 , pp. 53 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1957

Footnotes

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Previously published in the Portland Clinic Bulletin, Volume 9, No. 1, June 1955, Portland, Oregon.

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