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