Role of Neuron-Specific Enolase in the Diagnosis and Disease Monitoring of Sarcoidosis

Table 1

Characteristics of patients in the present study.

Disease	Characteristic	Number	(%)
Sarcoidosis		114
	Gender
	Male	36	(31.6)
	Female	78	(68.4)
	Median age (range)	61	(14–86)
	Smoking status
	Smoker	37	(32.5)
	Nonsmoker	77	(67.5)
	Number of involved organs
	1	14	(12.3)
	2	69	(60.5)
	3	21	(18.4)
	4	10	(8.8)
	Type of involved organs
	Lung	113	(99.1)
	Eye	81	(71.1)
	Skin	29	(25.4)
	Heart	13	(11.9)
	Nervous system	9	(7.9)
	Kidney	5	(4.4)
	Joint	2	(1.8)
	Spleen	1	(0.9)
	Chest radiographic stage
	1	57	(50.0)
	2	56	(49.1)
	≥3	0	(0)
	Positive biopsy	75	(65.8)
	Oral corticosteroid therapy	19	(16.7)
Nonsarcoidotic benign diseases		62
Small cell lung cancer		68