Sarcoidosis Has Many Clinical Manifestations

Minority Health Today, July, 2000 by Valerie D. Callender

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Cutaneous Manifestations of Sarcoidosis.

Specific Skin Lesilons

(Associated With Chronic Disease)

* Flesh colored "waxy" papules

* Lichenaid papules

* Hypopigmented macules

* Annular plaques

* Lupus pernia

* Subcutaneous nodules (Darier-Roussy Sarcoidosis)

* Nodules

* Ichthyosiform

* Psoriasiform

* Ulcerative

* Within scars

* Generalized erythroderma

* Oral lesions

* Scarring alopecia of the scalp

* Morpheaform

* Verruciform

* Pruritic maculopapular eruption

* Nail dystrophy

Nonspecific Skin Lesions

(Associated With Acute Disease)

* Erythema nodosum

* Erythema multiforme

* Calcinosis cutis

* Nummular eczema

* Pruritus

Causes of Erythema Nodosum [1]

Infections

Streptococci

Tuberculosis

Psittacosis

Yersiniosis

Lympho granuloma venereum