Sarcoidosis

Sarcoidosis, with Special Reference to Lung Changes

“…Ricker and Clark (1949), who examined the records of the United States Army Institute of Pathology, found that 174 of 300 cases were in negroes; since negroes constituted 10% of the United States Army, they estimated that the disease must have been about 17 times as frequent in the negroes as in the whites. Similarly McCort et al (1947) found that, of 28 patients referred to a United States Army centre for radiotherapy on account of lymphadenopathy who were found to be suffering from sarcoidosis, 15 were negroes. Twenty-three of Longcope's (1941) 31 patients were negroes.…”

“…Reisner (1944) found that 33 out of 35 cases coming under observation in chest clinics showed lung lesions, and 30 enlarged intrathoracic lymph nodes. McCort et al (1947) reported 28 cases seen in an Army Hospital centre for radiotherapy, and therefore coming under observation primarily because of enlarged hilar or peripheral lymph nodes; 15 of these had radiological evidence of lung involvement. Ricker and Clark (1949) found evidence of involvement of the lungs in 36% of 300 cases from which pathological material, either biopsy or necropsy, had been examined at the United States Army Institute of Pathology.…”

Fatal Myocardial Sarcoidosis

“…Salveson (1935), McCort et al (1947, and others. Criteria for the histological diagnosis have been firmly established by Nickerson (1937), Bates and Walsh (1948), and Yesner and Silver (1951).…”

Skeletal Sarcoidosis

“…Bone involvement is said to occur in only 5 ‐ 10 per cent of cases (Curtis et al 1919). McCort et al (1947) found 6 patients, in a series of 27, with radiological changes in the hands, but none with associated symptoms. It is probable therefore that to have symptomatic skeletal changes as a presenting feature is rare.…”