EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA

Abstract
EOSINOPHILIC granuloma of the bone has been established as a disease entity by Otani and Ehrlich1and by Lichtenstein and Jaffe,2in 1940. The eosinophilic granulomas of the skin as reported in the literature have recently been reviewed by Weidman,3Lewis and Cormia,4Lever5and Dobes and Weidman.6The cutaneous manifestations of eosinophilic granuloma have varied so widely in their clinical and histopathologic features that the disease is not yet considered as a disease entity. REPORT OF A CASE V. M.,7an 11 year old white girl, was first seen at the University of Chicago Clinics on Jan. 9, 1947. She complained of tender tumefactions and ulcerations of the skin on the upper part of the chest and scalp. She had been well until the age of 2 years, when she became ill with measles and mumps at the same time. During this