EPIDEMIOLOGIC AND CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS IN SARCOIDOSIS
Authors: M M CUMMINGS, E DUNNER, J H WILLIAMS
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1959)

Article1 April 1959EPIDEMIOLOGIC AND CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS IN SARCOIDOSISMARTIN M. CUMMINGS, M.D., EDWARD DUNNER, M.D., JOHN H. WILLIAMS JR.MARTIN M. CUMMINGS, M.D., EDWARD DUNNER, M.D., JOHN H. WILLIAMS JR.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-50-4-879 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptSarcoidosis was diagnosed in 1,700 patients seen in Veterans Administration hospitals between 1949 and 1956. The case records of 1,194 of these patients diagnosed during the five-year period 1949-1954 were reviewed. Information concerning age, race, sex, place and date of birth and place of initial hospitalization was analyzed. The most striking observation was the geographic distribution of the disease, revealing an endemic area in the eastern United States1, 2(figure 1). 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C.*Received for publication October 13, 1958.Presented at the Thirty-ninth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 30, 1958.From the Research Service, Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Martin M. Cummings, M.D., Director, Research Service, VA Central Office, Washington 25, D. C. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byPathology of the Orbit: Inflammations and InfectionsCo-Existence of Sarcoidosis and Sjögren's Syndrome with Hypercalcemia and Renal Involvement: A Case Report and Literature ReviewDiagnosis and Detection of Sarcoidosis. 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