Sarcoidosis

Abstract

The modern history of sarcoidosis, an enigmatic multisystem disease, goes back to 1899, when the pioneering Norwegian dermatologist Caesar Boeck coined the term to describe skin nodules characterized by compact, sharply defined foci of “epithelioid cells with large pale nuclei and also a few giant cells.”¹ Thinking this resembled sarcoma, he called the condition “multiple benign sarcoid of the skin.”¹