[Sarcoidosis as seronegative spondyloarthropathy]

Biomedica. 2005 Dec;25(4):435-8.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Two cases were presented with initial symptoms of inflammatory low back pain and alternate buttock pain. They developed a progressive dyspnea with bilateral mediastinal and hiliar lymphadenopathy and pulmonary interstitial disease as visualized with chest CT scan. Sarcoidosis diagnosis was confirmed by biopsy in both cases--in one case by skin biopsy and in the other by open lung biopsy. These clinical forms of spondyloarthropathy and sarcoidosis were unusual and were compared with similar cases present in the literature.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Low Back Pain / diagnostic imaging
  • Low Back Pain / drug therapy
  • Low Back Pain / etiology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prednisolone / therapeutic use
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Sarcoidosis / complications*
  • Sarcoidosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Sarcoidosis / drug therapy
  • Spondylitis / complications*
  • Spondylitis / diagnostic imaging
  • Spondylitis / drug therapy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Glucocorticoids
  • Prednisolone