A 55-year-old white woman with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for more than 10 years developed typical cutaneous sarcoidosis and erythema nodosum. Histologic examination and chest x-ray proved sarcoidosis.

They defined Löfgren syndrome as erythema nodosum, periarticular ankle inflammation plus bilateral hilar adenopathy. “The periarticular ankle inflammation is very important,” Brown said.

Although erythema nodosum was present in only 1 of the 5 patients of the present group, it has been present in most other reported cases. 7,14,15,17,19 James, Thomson and Willcox 14 found that 63 ...

The ACCESS study, [2] a case-controlled, multicenter study, involved 10 centers in the United States between 1997 and 1999. Incident cases and matched controls were compared on the prevalence of ...

IS THIS ERYTHEMA NODOSUM? February 14, 2008 ... Infectious etiologies and sarcoidosis would probably be the most common associations. Many cases, however, are idiopathic.

In a review of 95 cases of sarcoid arthritis, 3 only 1 of the 34 patients with the syndrome of polyarthritis, hilar adenopathy and erythema nodosum had coexistent cutaneous sarcoidosis. 4 This was ...

Erythema nodosum represents the most common form of panniculitis, manifesting as tender, ... sarcoidosis, and inflammatory bowel diseases—thus minimising the risk of misdiagnosis.

Some of the manifestations include brain complications, lymph node involvement, granulomatous scar tissue in the lungs, enlarged liver, erythema nodosum, enlarged spleen, heart involvement, skin ...

A: Conditions associated with erythema nodosum include sulfa-related drugs, birth control pills, strep throat, cat scratch disease, fungal diseases, infectious mononucleosis, sarcoidosis, Behcet's ...

Erythema nodosum, which consists of bilateral tender nodules on the anterior surface of the legs, is common but not specific to sarcoidosis. It is usually predictive of a milder, transient form of the ...

Erythema nodosum can be caused by a variety of conditions. It may be associated with a variety of infections: streptococcus, TB, primary coccidiosis, other deep fungal infections, yersinia and ...