[Erythema nodosum in sarcoidosis patients]

Erythema nodosum was registered in 45 from 502 sarcoidosis patients (9%). Erythema often arose in initial sarcoidosis, but was also recorded in the disease recurrences. Sarcoidosis of the skin and subcutaneous fat occurred in 16 and 4 patients, respectively, this incidence being half of that for erythema nodosum. Sarcoidosis of the above sites is the second in occurrence among extrapulmonary lesions following those of peripheral lymph nodes. Positive effects in the treatment of erythema nodosum were reached after administration of corticosteroids, noncorticosteroid anti-inflammatory drugs, physiotherapy, local therapy.