The Diagnosis of Sarcoidosis With Special Reference to the Kveim Reaction

Article1 December 1955THE DIAGNOSIS OF SARCOIDOSIS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE KVEIM REACTIONHAROLD L. ISRAEL, M.D., F.A.C.P., MAURICE SONES, M.D., F.A.C.P.HAROLD L. ISRAEL, M.D., F.A.C.P., MAURICE SONES, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-43-6-1269 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptBefore considering whether a specific diagnostic test for sarcoidosis is available, it is appropriate for us to inquire whether sarcoidosis is a specific disease. Some writers have questioned whether there is such an entity, and have suggested that sarcoidosis is merely a type of histologic response which may be produced by a wide variety of etiologic agents.1This point of view has merit: it is worthy of repeated emphasis that many agents—bacterial, viral, fungal, protozoan and mineral—can produce tuberculoid tissue changes which may be designated as thesarcoid reaction.2There is, however, persuasive epidemiologic3, 4and clinical5, 6evidence that...Bibliography1. Leider M: The Kveim test in sarcoidosis: the theory, meaning, and practical value of skin tests and reaction in sarcoidosis, J. Invest. Dermat. 10: 377, 1948. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Jacques WE: Sarcoidosis: a review and a proposed etiologic concept, Arch. Path. 53: 558, 1952. Google Scholar3. MichaelGentryNitowsky MJTHM: Epidemiological considerations of sarcoidosis, Presented at the 36th annual session, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pa., Apr. 27, 1955. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Presented at the Thirty-sixth Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 27, 1955.From the Graduate School of Medicine and the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania; the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania; the Philadelphia General Hospital, and Eagleville Sanatorium.†These studies have been supported by a grant (E-331) from the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byThe Kveim-Siltzbach testThe Kveim TestSerological Reactions of Berylliosis Patients to Extracts of Lung TissueHyperthermia, Fever and Infectious DiseasesEvaluation of the Kveim Reaction as a Diagnostic Test for SarcoidosisSARCOIDOSIS: CLINICAL STAFF CONFERENCE AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH*JOHN P. UTZ, M.D., EUGENE VAN SCOTT, M.D., HORACE W. BERNTON, M.D., JOHN H. 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