Systemic sarcoidosis with necrobiosis lipoidica-like scalp lesions.
A 78-year-old woman is described, having systemic sarcoidosis for 15 years, involving the lungs, lymph nodes and the skin. Over the last 6 years she developed a progressive cicatricial alopecia with histologic changes of the granulomatous type of necrobiosis lipoidica surrounded by sarcoid granulomas.
D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009335:Necrobiosis Lipoidica / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012507:Sarcoidosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012536:Scalp Dermatoses / Q000175:diagnosis*