Sarcoidosis

Abstract

IN 1899 Boeck^{1 , 2} published almost simultaneously in Norway and in the United States a report on some apparently rare skin manifestations that have since come to be associated with his name. These dusky blue nodular or infiltrative lesions showed, on histologic examination, an epithelioid structure, which he at first interpreted as sarcoma-like ("sarkoid") and later assumed to be of tuberculous genesis.³ Since that time there has been a steadily mounting interest in a disease of which the skin lesions of Boeck are only one of many regional manifestations. An ever-increasing number of case reports have accumulated under a wide and . . .