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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2013 Mar 13;39(2):277–297. doi: 10.1016/j.rdc.2013.02.007

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Examples of musculoskeletal involvement in sarcoidosis. (A) Punched-out cortical lesions and coarsened trabeculae yield a characteristic lacelike pattern in the proximal, middle, and distal phalanges. (B) Focal targetlike lesions in the vertebral bodies seen on sagittal short-tau inversion recovery sequence MRI. (C) Multiple large, lytic lesions within the skull of a patient with sarcoidosis. (D) Lobular lesions (arrow) within the vastus medialis muscle on gadolinium-enhanced MRI. (Courtesy of [A, C, D] Dr S. Smith, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; and [B] Dr K. Talekar, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.)