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- A disease of unknown cause characterised by non-caseating granulomata
- can affect any organ at ant age but most commonly affects the chest in young adults
- bilateral hilar lympadenopathy
- cough, fever, arthralgia, malaise, erythema nodosum
- also affects
- skin – rash
- eyes – uveitis
- heart
- CNS
- Renal
- musculoskeletal system
- Two Musculoskeletal Forms:
- Symmetrical Small Joint Polyarthropathy without Bony Involvement
- Erythema Nodosum
- Hilar lymphadenopathy
- Chronic Granulomatosis Bony Involvement
- Polyarthritis
- Tenosynovitis
- Punched out lucent bony “cyst”
- Especially hand & feet
Treatment