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Rheumatology 2003; 42: 1570-1571
© 2003 British Society for Rheumatology

Letter to the Editor

Cutaneous childhood sarcoidosis—a rare disease refractory to treatment

A. V. Ramanan, D. W. Denning1 and E. M. Baildam

Department of Paediatric Rheumatology, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Charlestown Road, Manchester and 1Education and Research Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital, Southmoor Road, Manchester M23 9LT, UK

Correspondence to: A. V. Ramanan E-mail: avramanan@hotmail.com

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SIR, Childhood sarcoidosis is a rare multisystem granulomatous disease. Skin and muscle involvement in childhood sarcoidosis is well described. We report a child with late-onset childhood sarcoidosis limited to skin and muscle causing no symptoms whatsoever. The cosmetically disfiguring lesions seen in our patient were extremely refractory to treatment.

A 13-yr-old girl presented with a 6-month history of a painless swelling on the lateral aspect of her right . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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