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Correspondence| Volume 30, ISSUE 2, P347, February 1999

Improvement of sarcoidosis under therapy with interferon-α 2b for chronic hepatitis B virus infection

      The recent case report by Hoffmann et al. published in the Journal of Hepatology(
      • Hoffmann R
      • Jung M
      • Motz R
      • Gößl C
      • Emslander H
      • Zachoval R
      • et al.
      Sarcoidosis associated with interferon-alpha therapy for chronic hepatitis C.
      ) describes three patients developing sarcoidosis during treatment with interferon-α for chronic hepatitis C virus infection.
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