“…Muscular involvement is usually asymptomatic [ 15]; symptomatic involvement of muscle occurs with considerably less frequency [6]. There are three main clinical types of sarcoidosis with symptomatic involvement of muscles [6,16]: type I, the palpable nodular type, which is the least common although it was the form first reported by Licharew; type 1I, the acute myositic type, which occurs in the early stage of sarcoidosis, in which inflammatory process may cause myalgia and muscular tenderness; and type III, the chronic myopathic type, in which patients may present with weakness and wasting of the muscles. In this study, the lesions in case 1 and case 2 were compatible with type I, and case 3 was type II.…”