“…Two years later, she died of pulmonary embolism, and at necropsy granulomas were found in muscles, Iiver, spleen, lymph-nodes and bones. The remarkable case recorded by Furtado and Carvalho (1947) as 'tuberculose musculaire' in a boy aged six seems better categorized as granulomatous myopathy of sarcoid type. This boy's development had been delayed since the age of two, and he had shown increasing rigidity of the limbs from the age of four.…”