Isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis in a teenage male: a rare case report
Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease with multisystem involvement characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas. It can affect virtually every organ of the body, with lung involvement being most common occurring in >90% of patients. Other organs affected are skin, eye and liver....
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| author | H.K. Aggarwal D. Jain A. Mittal G. Dabas |
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| description | Sarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease with multisystem involvement characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas. It can affect virtually every organ of the body, with lung involvement being most common occurring in >90% of patients. Other organs affected are skin, eye and liver. Skin involvement is common, affecting 25-35%. Here we present a rare case of a 15 year-old male with isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis without systemic involvement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ba9336d824034b0a8df7f5a7d793900c2022-12-22T00:34:56ZengPAGEPress PublicationsReumatismo0048-74492240-26832016-09-0168210010310.4081/reumatismo.2016.867712Isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis in a teenage male: a rare case reportH.K. Aggarwal0D. Jain1A. Mittal2G. Dabas3Department of Medicine, Sharma University of Health Sciences, RohtakDepartment of Medicine, Sharma University of Health Sciences, RohtakDepartment of Medicine, Sharma University of Health Sciences, RohtakDepartment of Medicine, Sharma University of Health Sciences, RohtakSarcoidosis is an inflammatory disease with multisystem involvement characterized by the presence of noncaseating granulomas. It can affect virtually every organ of the body, with lung involvement being most common occurring in >90% of patients. Other organs affected are skin, eye and liver. Skin involvement is common, affecting 25-35%. Here we present a rare case of a 15 year-old male with isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis without systemic involvement.http://www.reumatismo.org/index.php/reuma/article/view/867SarcoidosisNon-caseating granulomasOculocutaneous granulomatosis. |
| spellingShingle | H.K. Aggarwal D. Jain A. Mittal G. Dabas Isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis in a teenage male: a rare case report Reumatismo Sarcoidosis Non-caseating granulomas Oculocutaneous granulomatosis. |
| title | Isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis in a teenage male: a rare case report |
| title_full | Isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis in a teenage male: a rare case report |
| title_fullStr | Isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis in a teenage male: a rare case report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis in a teenage male: a rare case report |
| title_short | Isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis in a teenage male: a rare case report |
| title_sort | isolated oculocutaneous sarcoidosis in a teenage male a rare case report |
| topic | Sarcoidosis Non-caseating granulomas Oculocutaneous granulomatosis. |
| url | http://www.reumatismo.org/index.php/reuma/article/view/867 |
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