BOECK'S SARCOID: A CASE OF SARCOIDOSIS COMPLICATED BY PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AND COR PULMONALE
Authors: I ZIMMERMAN, N MANN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1949)

Case Reports1 July 1949BOECK'S SARCOID: A CASE OF SARCOIDOSIS COMPLICATED BY PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA AND COR PULMONALEIRVING ZIMMERMAN, M.D., NORMAN MANN, M.D.IRVING ZIMMERMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, NORMAN MANN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-31-1-153 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe course of Boeck's sarcoid has in the past been considered relatively benign and free from constitutional symptoms. The increasing number of cases coming to the autopsy table, however, continues to shed new light on the subject and forces one to regard the ultimate prognosis with less optimism than formerly. Rubin and Pinner1state that approximately half of the autopsied cases died as a direct consequence of the disease, if one considers caseous tuberculosis as a natural development of Boeck's sarcoid. Although chronic cor pulmonale has been mentioned in the literature as a possible complicating factor secondary to the pulmonary...Bibliography1. RUBINPINNER EM: Sarcoidosis, Am. Rev. Tuberc., 1944, xlix, 146-169. Google Scholar2. WARFVINGE LE: Über eine von abgetöteten Tuberkelbazillen hervorgerufene Hautreaktion bei Lymphogranulomatosis benigna, Acta Tuberc. Scandinav., 1945, xix, 126-141. Google Scholar3. PINNER M: Pulmonary tuberculosis in the adult, 1945, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill., p. 312-320. Google Scholar4. SCHAUMANN J: Étude anatomo-pathologique et histologique sur les localisations viscerales de la lymphogranulomatose bénigne, Bull. Soc. franç. de dermat. et syph., 1933, xl, 1167-1178. Google Scholar5. SNAPPER I: Pseudotuberculosis in man, 1938, Haarlem, Bohn. Google Scholar6. REISNER D: Boeck's sarcoid and systemic sarcoidosis, Am. Rev. Tuberc., 1944, xlix, 289-307; 437-462. Google Scholar7. LONGCOPEPIERSON WTJW: Boeck's sarcoid, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 1937, lx, 223-296. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New York, N.Y.*Received for publication April 16, 1947.From the Department of Pathology, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, New York, N. Y. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byLong-term Findings in Bullous Sarcoidosis: A Case Report and Literature ReviewSarcoidosis-associated pulmonary hypertensionSarkoidozlu Hastalarda Sistolik Pulmoner Arter Basıncının Pulmoner Arter Çapı, Yaş, Hastalık Süresi, Hastalığın Evresi ve Akciğer Dışı Tutulumla İlişkisiSarcoidosis-Associated Pulmonary HypertensionPrevalence of pulmonary hypertension in pulmonary sarcoidosis: the first large European prospective studyA Young Patient With a Minimal Smoking History Presents With Bullous Emphysema and Recurrent PneumothoraxAirflow Obstruction in SarcoidosisLarge lung bullae in sarcoidosis.The vanishing lung syndrome associated with pulmonary sarcoidosisAirway function in sarcoidosisFATAL FUNGUS INFECTION IN SARCOIDOSIS: REPORT OF TWO CASES TREATED WITH ANTIBIOTICS AND CORTISONE*ISRAEL STEINBERG, M.D., F.A.C.P.SARCOIDOSIS—HEPATIC INVOLVEMENT: PRESENTATION OF A CASE WITH FATAL LIVER INVOLVEMENT, INCLUDING AUTOPSY FINDINGS AND REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE FOR SARCOID INVOLVEMENT OF THE LIVER AS FOUND IN THE LITERATURE*JOHN H. BRANSON, M.D., JAMES H. PARK, M.D.Pulmonary function in sarcoidosisSarcoidosis 1 July 1949Volume 31, Issue 1Page: 153-162KeywordsAutopsyEmphysemaSarcoidosis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 July 1949 PDF downloadLoading ...