Eosinophilic Granuloma of the Lung

Abstract

EOSINOPHILIC granuloma of the lung without associated skeletal or visceral lesions was first described by Farinacci et al.^{1 , 2} in 1951. They reported these cases from an Army general hospital in 2 enlisted men, both of whom had complaints of chronic cough, weight loss, exertional dyspnea and chest discomfort. One patient was thirty-two, and the other twenty-four years of age. The diagnosis was made by thoracotomy and lung biopsy. The histologic appearance of the excised nodules had features identical with that of eosinophilic granuloma of bone. The following 2 similar cases were also proved by thoracotomy and lung biopsy.Case Reports . . .