title: Osseous infiltration in a patient with sarcoidosis.
abstract: A man with lumbar back pain underwent magnetic resonance imaging that showed vertebral and iliac bone lesions. A vertebral biopsy was performed in order to rule out malignancy. Pathology showed non-necrotizing granulomas. The patient had been diagnosed with pulmonary sarcoidosis 20 years earlier and this time the diagnosis made was vertebral sarcoidosis. Osseous infiltration is seen in 13% of patients with sarcoidosis, most of them with long-term disease. Iliac sarcoidosis has seldom been reported, and there are no cases of both iliac and vertebral sarcoidosis in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Internal Medicine Department, La Fe Universitary Hospital, Valencia, Spain. luisua@wanadoo.es
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Suárez Alvarez
authors.forename: Luisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Micó Giner
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alberola Carbonell
authors.forename: José Ramón
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Calabuig Alborch