Case Report

Chronic Inflammatory Arthropathy Preceding Acute Systemic Manifestations of Sarcoidosis: A Possible Overlap of Idiopathic Juvenile Arthritis and Sarcoidosis

Figure 2

Macroscopic and microscopic appearance of the liver. (a) Multiple white lesions on the liver surface. (b) Well-formed epithelioid granulomas without necrosis (H&E 40x). (c) Epithelioid granuloma with epithelioid macrophages and pooled multinucleated giant cells with interposed lymphocytes (H&E 100x). (d) Detail of multinucleated giant cells with asteroid bodies within the cytoplasm (H&E 1000x), provided by the pathology service of HUCAM-UFES.
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