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Sarcoidosis presenting with large vessel vasculitis and osteosclerosis-related bone and joint pain
K A Kirou1, H E Bateman, M Bansal
1Division of Rheumatology, Hospital for Special Surger, New York, NY 10021, USA. kirouk@hss.edu
Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology
|July 15, 2000
Abstract:
A 34-year-old African-American female diagnosed earlier with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, uveitis, and pulmonary nodules, developed a subclavian artery aneurysm, and generalized annular osteosclerotic lesions with disabling arthralgias. Biopsies from bone and lymph node revealed non-caseating granulomas and no evidence of malignancy or infection, confirming the clinical impression of sarcoidosis.