MUSCLE INVOLVEMENT IN BOECK'S SARCOID

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Abstract
Patients (42) with proved sarcoidosis are reported, 23 of whom showed sarcoid lesions on random biopsy from skeletal muscle. There was no consistent correlation between objective changes in muscle and the presence of lesions. The wider the dissemination of the sarcoidosis, the more likely the muscle biopsy was to show sarcoid lesions. The sarcoid granuloma in muscle was similar to that in other tissues. One patient had a granulomatous arteritis in the muscle due to sarcoid. Because of the sparsity of lesions, routine sectioning at multiple levels was of great importance in discovering sarcoid lesions in muscle.
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