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... > Investigative Techniques > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Immunologic Tests > Skin Tests > Intradermal Tests > Kveim Test
... > Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Clinical Laboratory Techniques > Immunologic Tests > Skin Tests > Intradermal Tests > Kveim Test
... > Investigative Techniques > Immunologic Techniques > Immunologic Tests > Skin Tests > Intradermal Tests > Kveim Test

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Kveim Test  

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  • Intradermal injection of a heated (pasteurized) saline suspension of sarcoid tissue obtained from a sarcoid spleen or lymph node. In patients with active sarcoidosis a dusky red nodule develops slowly over the next few weeks at the injection site. Histologic examination, an essential part of the complete test, reveals sarcoid tissue.

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  • 91(75); was see under SKIN TESTS 1975-90

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