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In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis. The dramatic improvement that occurred on corticosteroid therapy adds credibility to this previously unreported association.
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Ngô, Y., Messing, B., Marteau, P. et al. Peritoneal sarcoidosis. Digest Dis Sci 37, 1776–1780 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01299875
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