Transition from diffuse cellular infiltration to extensive nodular granuloma as a manifestation of isolated sarcoidosis in the hand: a case report

J Hand Surg Am. 2003 May;28(3):439-42. doi: 10.1053/jhsu.2003.50077.

Abstract

A patient with soft-tissue sarcoidosis of the hand is described. She initially presented with diffuse soft-tissue infiltration in the digits. After a 12-year time period without steroid treatment the patient developed extensive, tumor-like nodular masses involving multiple digits with lesions extending to the fingertips. Variable clinical features of the soft-tissue sarcoidosis of the hand have been reported as distinctive, independent manifestations of the disease. A transition from the diffuse cellular infiltration to the nodular, tumor-like lesions in the present case shows that the isolated soft-tissue sarcoidosis of the hand may exhibit variable clinical features in a single case.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Fingers / pathology
  • Granuloma / pathology*
  • Hand*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Sarcoidosis / pathology*
  • Synovial Membrane / pathology
  • Tenosynovitis / pathology*