Abstract

Sarcoidosis is a systemic granulomatous disease of unknown cause that may involve almost any organ of the body. The skin is involved in approximately 25% of patients with the disease. Characteristically, the skin lesions do not ulcerate, do not become necrotic, and do not form sinuses. This report describes a patient with extensive multisystem sarcoidosis who had numerous ulcerated cutaneous plaques and nodules. REPORT OF A CASE A 79-year-old black woman was referred to Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center in February 1974 for evaluation of increasingly severe skin lesions. She was in excel

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