Abstract
A 71-year old woman presented our outpatient department with the history of multiple erythema on the face and upper extremities for two years. She already consulted a few dermatologists, but she could not obtain successful treatment. On the initial examination, elliptical, ring-shaped, scarlet and slightly atrophic erythema were obserbed on the face and upper extremities. The size of the leision was about 1cm in diameter. Histological examination showed non-caseous epitheloid cell granuloma at the entire layers of the dermis. From the clinical and histological fidings, the patient was diagnosed as beeing with plaque type skin sarcoid. We tried oral steroids, oral minocycline and topical steroids for the treatment of the patient. The treatment with oral steroids and oral minocycline was slightly effective. The skin lesions were refractly by discontineuing the medication. We also discussed about the treatment of cutaneous sarcoidosis with reviewing the relevant literature.
