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Radiologic Manifestations of Musculoskeletal Sarcoidosis

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Purpose of Review

The purpose of this review article is to present the spectrum of abnormalities and multi-modality imaging evaluations in patients with musculoskeletal sarcoidosis.

Recent Findings

The articular manifestations of sarcoidosis are difficult to distinguish from those of the other inflammatory and degenerative arthropathies, and the muscular lesions in sarcoidosis are generally clinically silent and therefore often missed. Magnetic resonance imaging has shown these manifestations to be very common in active sarcoidosis, and should thus be included in the screening if musculoskeletal sarcoidosis is suspected.

Summary

The clinician should consider magnetic resonance imaging for the evaluation of patients with sarcoidosis who have unexplained osteoarticular complaints if standard radiographs are negative. Furthermore, radiologists should include sarcoidosis in the differential diagnosis of musculoskeletal disease detected at magnetic resonance imaging in the appropriate clinical setting.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Grupo Osteomuscular, Fleury Medicina e Saúde, São Paulo, Brazil

    Júlio Brandão Guimarães, Marcelo A. Nico, Alípio G. Omond, Flávio D. Silva, Laís Uyeda Aivazoglou & Bruno C. Carneiro

  2. Department of Radiology, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Júlio Brandão Guimarães, Flávio D. Silva, Laís Uyeda Aivazoglou & Artur R. C. Fernandes

  3. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, 185 Berry St, Suite 350, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA

    Júlio Brandão Guimarães

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Brandão Guimarães, J., Nico, M.A., Omond, A.G. et al. Radiologic Manifestations of Musculoskeletal Sarcoidosis. Curr Rheumatol Rep 21, 7 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11926-019-0806-0

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