Evaluation of cutaneous sarcoidosis cases in the dermatology ambulatory of EPM/UNIFESP: frequency, clinical and laboratorial aspects, and evolution

• Grant number: 21/01936-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2021
• End date: April 30, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Marcos César Florian
• Grantee: Fernanda Pailo de Almeida
• Host Institution: Escola Paulista de Medicina (EPM). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflamatory desease, with an etiology still barely understood, which harms a variety of organs and shows higher prevalence in Afro-Americans. Cutaneous lesions are the most common extratoracic manifestations of sarcoidosis and are found in aproximmately a third of the patients, being classified in specific and non-specific lesions. The non-specific are represented by the erythema nodosum and the specific lesions can be found in several differents aspects, having in common the presence of the typical sarcoid granuloma showed by the histopatologycal exam in 90% of the cases. The diagnosis is made after exclusion of other possible causes. In Brasil there is a lack of data related to cutaneous sarcoidosis and this study developed in the Dermatology Ambulatory of EPM/UNIFESP can certainly cooperate to the improvement of the diagnosis and the appropriate treatment, whenever it is necessary. (AU)