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Their Relationship with Mikulicz' Syndrome

CAPT. ELLIS GRUBER, MC

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1956;55(1):42-47.

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Generalized sarcoidosis is now recognized as a fairly common disease, and much has been written about it in recent years. However, in a review of the literature, it is apparent that sarcoidosis of the lacrimal glands as the only evidence of ocular involvement is fairly rare, and this case is probably the first to be reported in which Sjögren's syndrome was present in the same patient.

SARCOIDOSIS

It was Boeck,¹ in 1899, who first described sarcoid of the skin. This is the commonest type of sarcoid that is found. In 1904 Darier and Roussy² first described a different type of sarcoid from Boeck's, in that it was subcutaneous rather than in the skin, and it was a rare variety occurring essentially in the extremities. As for sarcoidosis of the lacrimal glands, Wexler,³ in 1939, presented a case of bilateral swelling of the lacrimal glands in a Negro . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
U. S. A. F.

Footnotes
Received for publication Sept. 21, 1955.

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