• Sarcoid-like reaction in a patient recovering from coronavirus disease 19 pneumonia

      Behbahani, Sara; Baltz, Julia; Droms, Rebecca; Deng, April C.; Amano, Shinya U.; Levin, Nikki A.; O'Brien, Mary Callery; Wiss, Karen (2020-07-24)
      As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases continue to increase, so do the reported extrapulmonary manifestations of this disease. To date, described dermatologic manifestations of COVID-19 include pernio-like acral nodules, dengue fever–like petechiae, vesiculobullous eruptions, pityriasis rosea and viral-like exanthems, retiform purpura, and livedo reticularis.1 We describe a patient with new-onset, biopsy confirmed sarcoid-like reaction in the setting of COVID-19 pneumonia and postulate a role for this immunologic reaction in hastening disease recovery.