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OBJECTIVES: This study aims to discuss the clinical, laboratory and genetic findings, and treatment options for six patients who were diagnosed with Blau syndrome (BS)/early-onset sarcoidosis (EOS). PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study included four patients (2 males,2 females; mean age 7 years; range 4 to 10 years) with EOS and two siblings (1 male, 1 female; mean age 10 years; range, 9 to 11 years) with BS. Age, age of initial symptoms, age of diagnosis; articular involvement, presence of uveitis, dermatitis, or fever, other organ involvement, laboratory findings, results of metabolic tests for mucopolysaccharidosis and mucolipidosis, results of genetic, pathologic, and immunologic tests, radiologic findings to evaluate skeletal dysplasia, and treatment options were collected...

BACKGROUND: Myalgia is one of the presenting symptoms of Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), which is reported at a rate of 27-39.6%. Recurrent fasciitis in those cases are extremely rare. We aimed to present a case with FMF having radiologically proven fasciitis. CASE: An 11-year-old male patient with a diagnosis of FMF and M694V homozygote mutation, using colchicine regularly at a dose of 2 mg/day (0.08 mg/kg/day) for 4 years; was admitted to the hospital with severe pain and tenderness on the right calf...

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