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Tumour‐like muscular sarcoidosis
Author(s) -
Nemoto I.,
Shimizu T.,
Fujita Y.,
Tateishi Y.,
TsujiAbe Y.,
Shimizu H.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2007.02371.x
Subject(s) - sarcoidosis , medicine , multisystem disease , etiology , granulomatous disease , pathology , systemic disease , disease , dermatology
Summary Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disease of unknown aetiology with variable manifestations, which may affect virtually any organ. Muscular sarcoidosis is a rare entity, and among this group of muscular lesions, the tumour‐like muscular sarcoidosis subtype is extremely rare. We report on two sarcoidosis cases that presented muscular sarcoid lesions with subcutaneous tumours.