SARCOIDOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH POLYARTHRITIS
Authors: M W DAVIS, R Q CROTTY
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1952)

Case Reports1 April 1952SARCOIDOSIS ASSOCIATED WITH POLYARTHRITISMARTIN W. DAVIS, M.D., RICHARD Q. CROTTY, M.D.MARTIN W. DAVIS, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, RICHARD Q. CROTTY, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-36-4-1098 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptReports of individual cases and series of cases of sarcoidosis have been increasing in the world literature in recent years.1However, its association with a polyarthritis has rarely been reported. Castellanos2reported this combination in a six year old Cuban boy, the arthritis resembling Still's disease. His patient died of generalized tuberculosis, and it is difficult to be sure how many of the manifestations may have been due to tuberculous infection. Zweifel3reported the combination in a Swiss girl 10 years old. In his patient, the joint involvement was due to an extension of the sarcoidosis from neighboring bones to...Bibliography1. Freiman DG: Sarcoidosis, New England J. Med. 239: 664, 1948. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. CastellanosGalon AE: Sarcoidosis (Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann's disease): report of case in child simulating Still's disease, Am. J. Dis. Child. 71: 513-529, 1946. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Zweifel E: Gleichzeitiges Vorkommen eines Boeckschen Sarkoids mit einer primären chronischen Polyarthritis (beginnendes Sjögren-Syndrom), Helvet. paediat. acta 1: 475-494, 1946. MedlineGoogle Scholar4. MoyerAckerman JHAJ: Sarcoidosis. A clinical and roentgenological study of twenty-eight cases, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 61: 299-322 (March) 1950. MedlineGoogle Scholar5. Moreau MR: Formes articulaires de la maladie de Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann, L'Académie Nationale de Médecine 133: 89-91, 1949. MedlineGoogle Scholar6. Leitner SJ: Der Morbus Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann, 1942, Benno Schwabe Co., Basel, p. 78. Google Scholar7. Kissmeyer AH: La maladie de Boeck: sarcoides cutanées bénignes multiples, 1932, Masson et Cie, Paris, p. 102. Google Scholar8. Martenstein H: Sarkoid Boeck und Lupus pernio, Arch. f. Dermat. u. Syph. 147: 70-99, 1924. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. Michelson HE: Personal communication. Google Scholar10. Hench PS: Personal communication. Google Scholar11. Jüngling O: Ostitis tuberculosa multiplex cystica (eine eigenartige Form der Knochentuberkulose), Fortschr. a. d. Geb. d. Röntgenstrahlen 27: 375-383, 1919-21. Google Scholar12. Reisner D: Boeck's sarcoid and systemic sarcoidosis (Besnier-Boeck-Schaumann disease): study of 35 cases, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 49: 289-307 and 437-462, 1944. Google Scholar13. Sjögren H: Zur Kenntnis der Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca (Keratitis filiformis bei Hypofunktion der Tränendrüsen), Acta ophth. 11 (Supplementum 2): 1-151, 1933. Google Scholar14. Zweifel E: Beobachtungen bei Speicheldrusenerkrankungen, Helvet. paediat. acta 12: 619-627, 1945. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: St. Louis, Missouri*Received for publication April 15, 1950.Studies, observations and reports from The Barnard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byConcomitant sarcoidosis and a connective tissue disease: Review of the clinical findings and postulations concerning their associationSarcoidosis in autoimmune diseaseA Possible Association of Rheumatoid Arthritis and SarcoidosisJoint Involvement in Sarcoidosis with Special Reference to the Coexistence of Sarcoidosis and Rheumatoid ArthritisSarcoid Arthritis with a Response to ColchicineClinical and Pathological Studies of Joint Involvement in SarcoidosisAux Frontières des Rhumatismes Inflammatoires et des CollagenosesRHEUMATISM AND ARTHRITIS REVIEW OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LITERATURE OF RECENT YEARS (ELEVENTH RHEUMATISM REVIEW)* Part IIWILLIAM D. ROBINSON, M.D., F.A.C.P., JOSEPH J. BUNIM, M.D., F.A.C.P., WILLIAM S. CLARK, M.D., DARRELL C. CRAIN, M.D., F.A.C.P., EPHRAIM P. ENGLEMAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., DONALD C. GRAHAM, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C), MAX M. MONTGOMERY, M.D., F.A.C.P., BERNARD M. NORCROSS, M.D., F.A.C.P., CHARLES RAGAN, M.D., F.A.C.P., MARIAN W. ROPES, M.D., F.A.C.P., EDWARD F. ROSENBERG, M.D., F.A.C.P., CHARLEY J. SMYTH, M.D., F.A.C.P.Morbus BoeckMorbus BoeckSarcoidosis: A hypersensitivity disease 1 April 1952Volume 36, Issue 4Page: 1098-1106KeywordsArthritisBoneObservational studiesSarcoidosisTuberculosis Issue Published: 1 April 1952 PDF downloadLoading ...