Refractory highly disfiguring lupus pernio: a dramatic and prolonged response to infliximab.

The article discusses refractory highly disfiguring lupus pernio as a prolonged response to infliximab in a 59-year-old woman with a violaceous nodule on her nose and a slightly infiltrated plaque on her right cheek. Topics covered include how the skin manifestations in the woman completely resolved after seven infusions and how lupus pernio is a subset of cutaneous sarcoidosis described as chronic persistent violaceous nodular.