Cutaneous manifestations of sarcoidosis. Relationships to other organ system involvement, abnormal laboratory measurements, and disease course
- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 145 (10) , 1811-1814
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.145.10.1811
Abstract
The charts of 329 patients with sarcoidosis were reviewed to determine if there were significant associations between the presence of sarcoidosis skin lesions and other abnormalities. Sixty-four patients had either biopsy specimen-documented cutaneous granulomata or erythema nodosum (EN). Respiratory symptoms occurred in 41% of patients with skin lesions compared with 63% of patients with sarcoidosis without skin lesions. Among patients with skin lesions other than EN, splenomegaly occurred in 38%, hepatomegaly in 32%, and lymphadenopathy in 31%, compared with 10%, 11%, and 56%, respectively, for patients with sarcoidosis without skin lesions. Thirty-two percent of patients with EN had progressive disease compared with 72% of patients with skin lesions other than EN; however, improved prognosis with EN was limited to white patients.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: