Lupus vs. Sarcoidosis — What's the Difference?

(pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.

Sarcoidosis (also known as Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease) is a disease involving abnormal collections of inflammatory cells that form lumps known as granulomata. The disease usually begins in the lungs, skin, or lymph nodes.

Lupus, technically known as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in many parts of the body. Symptoms vary between people and may be mild to severe.

A disease of unknown origin that is characterized by the formation of granulomatous lesions especially in the lungs and lymph nodes of the chest and trunk, and less often in the skin, eyes, and other organs, and that if untreated may lead to chronic illness and organ damage. Also called sarcoid.

A constellation of stars in the Southern Hemisphere near Centaurus and Scorpius.

(medicine) A multisystem disorder characterized by granulomas.

See systemic lupus erythematosus.

A chronic disease of unknown cause marked by the formation of nodules in the lungs and liver and lymph glands and salivary glands

Any of several other forms of lupus erythematosus.

Originally, a cutaneous disease with the appearance of the skin having been gnawed, and occurring under two distinct forms. Now used as a generic term for over ten distinguishable diseases having visible cutaneous symptoms.

The Wolf, a constellation situated south of Scorpio.

Any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease

A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Centaurus