Clinical Focus Series: Lesions of Sarcoidosis-A Problem Solving Approach by (Late) Om P Sharma

The book “Lesions of Sarcoidosis: A Problem Solving Approach“ is the last one written by Professor Sharma. His original idea was that this book would be of use not only to pulmonologists and internists, but also for practitioners of other specialists because of multisystem nature of sarcoidosis.

Professor Sharma sincerely hoped that this book should be a picturesque guide for all doctors who ever intended to explore numerous manifestations of this mysterious disease. The main purpose of the book is to provide medical fraternity a comprehensive review of possible clinical presentations of sarcoidosis.

• Chapters are easily readable, contain explanatory image (s) of the lesions, X-rays/CT films, histological images, table of differential diagnosis, and brief clinical importance

• Chapters are devoted to common lesions of sarcoidosis including erythema nodosum, lupus pernio, facial palsy, heart block, splenomegaly, peripheral lymphadenopathy, hilar adenopathy, hypercalcemia, heart block, and many others

• Each chapter provides practical approach to solve complex puzzles of usual and unusual complications of sarcoidosis-a mysterious multisystem disease

• The description of possible lesions of sarcoidosis provides significant information useful at the bedside of the sarcoidosis patient

• Easy to read narratives consist of definition of the lesion, historical account, clinical and histological description of the lesion, differential diagnosis, and treatment

• Each chapter is enhanced with tables, simple algorithms, and clinical images of the lesions

• The book is unique, the last one Professor Om P Sharma, the renaissance man, wrote.