LUPUS PERNIO - RADIOGALLIUM IMAGING IN A PATIENT WITH CHRONIC CUTANEOUS SARCOIDOSIS

A 37-year-old man with a history of chronic skin sarcoldosis had the c lassic triad of lupus pernio. Each of the lesions (nose, ears, and han ds) revealed avid radiogallium accumulation. In addition, both the pan da sign and the lambda sign of hilar-mediastinal lymph node uptake of radiogallium were present, despite normal results of chest radiography . Several other lymph node chains were also involved. The case can ser ve as a baseline to determine if other instances of lupus pernio have such a wide systemic distribution of radiogallium uptake.