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Alopecia: manifestação cutânea rara de sarcoidose Alopecia: an uncommon cutaneous manifestation of sarcoidosis

Authors :
Fabiane Mulinari Brenner
Daniela Badziak
Fernanda Manfron Batista Rosas
José Fillus Neto
Sandra Moritz
Source :
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, Vol 83, Iss 5, Pp 437-440 (2008)
Publication Year :
2008
Publisher :
Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia, 2008.

Abstract

A sarcoidose é doença granulomatosa multissistêmica que geralmente compromete o trato respiratório e os linfonodos hilares. A pele é comumente afetada, mas raramente o couro cabeludo. Dois casos de sarcoidose com lesões no couro cabeludo são relatados: o primeiro, em paciente negra apresentando áreas de alopecia no couro cabeludo associada a outras lesões cutâneas; e o segundo, em paciente branca, portadora de sarcoidose pulmonar, com alopecia como manifestação cutânea isolada. A sarcoidose de couro cabeludo merece especial atenção, pois nos pacientes com essa forma de lesão cutânea existe alta incidência de acometimento sistêmico.Sarcoidosis is a multi-system granulomatous disease that generally affects the respiratory tract and hilar lymph nodes. The skin is also commonly involved, although cutaneous sarcoidosis on the scalp is rare. Two cases of scalp sarcoidosis are reported: the first presented with patchy alopecia, cutaneous sarcoidosis and also systemic disease in a black patient; the second case is related to an uncommon presentation with alopecia as the single cutaneous manifestation in a Caucasian patient with pulmonary sarcoidosis. Scalp sarcoidosis deserves special attention because there is a high incidence of other systemic lesions with this cutaneous manifestation, thus a careful investigation should be performed in these patients.

Details

Language :
English, Portuguese
ISSN :
03650596 and 18064841
Volume :
83
Issue :
5
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.1e5231ac35914899ae25ab4d4d0f602d
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0365-05962008000500007