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ArticleCureus2023

Subcutaneous Sarcoidosis.

Dedeepya Gullapalli, Avinash Vangara, Sandhya Kolagatla, Subramanya Shyam Ganti, Jayaramakrishna Depa

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Article in Cureus, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dedeepya GullapalliInternal Medicine, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Harlan, USA.
Avinash VangaraInternal Medicine, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Harlan, USA.
Sandhya KolagatlaInternal Medicine, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Harlan, USA.
Subramanya Shyam GantiInternal Medicine, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Harlan, USA.
Jayaramakrishna DepaInternal Medicine, Appalachian Regional Healthcare, Harlan, USA.
Appalachian Regional Healthcare · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This case report focuses on a 40-year-old female with multiple subcutaneous skin nodules presenting to the clinic for worsening skin lesions associated with erythema and mild tenderness. A biopsy of the skin lesions showed non-necrotizing granulomas with multinucleated giant cells. The patient was being worked up for non-necrotizing granulomatous skin lesions and was diagnosed with subcutaneous sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis diagnosis is based on clinical presentation, histopathological changes, and ruling out other granulomatous causes. Our patient is being treated with systemic steroids, hydroxychloroquine, methotrexate, and adalimumab. The patient is nine months into the treatment. A clinically significant reduction in the nodule size was noted. Other systemic involvement of sarcoid was ruled out. This subcutaneous skin involvement is a rare finding called the Darier-Roussy sarcoid. Usually self-resolving but extensive, deformative lesions need to be treated.

Indexed as

cutaneous granulomatous diseasecutaneous sarcoidosisdisease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (dmards)hilar adenopathysteroids

Identifiers

PMID38152786
PMCPMC10752381
OpenAlexW4389058276

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