Sarcoid of Boeck

Kaposi1first grouped mycosis fungoides, lymphodermia perniciosa, sarcomatosis cutis and the real sarcomas of the skin in a class which he called sarcoid. Spiegler2and Max Joseph3did some early work on the subject. Fendt4classed as sarcoid, "tumors of benign prognosis, having only a limited growth, frequently healing with arsenic, composed of groups of round cells, which are circumscribed, divided by septa and encapsulated." Boeck5in 1899 reported as multiple benign sarcoid a new disease of characteristic clinical and histologic appearance. In later articles Boeck6reported a series of cases and added a new type of the disease, the diffuse infiltrating type. The work of Boeck caused many cases to be reported in the European literature but in America the only cases are those of Gottheil,7Pollitzer8and Sutton.9G. H. Fox and Wile10reported an atypical case and