SARCOIDOSIS WITH RETINAL INVOLVEMENT

1 August 1944

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Ophthalmology (1950)

Vol. 32 (2) , 93-96
https://doi.org/10.1001/archopht.1944.00890080021002

Abstract

Boeck's sarcoid was described by Longcope and Pierson¹as "a chronic infectious granuloma, persisting often for years, sometimes spreading slowly from one organ or tissue of the body to another, frequently relapsing, seldom producing serious constitutional symptoms, resistant to treatment, but at times healing spontaneously." The most frequent site of ocular involvement is the iris. Blegvad²stated that iritis occurs in 10 per cent of the cases. Osterberg,³however, found but 27 cases of iritis in 500 cases of Boeck's sarcoid in the literature and estimated that involvement of the iris occurs in more nearly 5 per cent of the cases. The lacrimal gland and the conjunctiva are involved infrequently. The most uncommon sites of sarcoid infiltration are the choroid and the retina. King⁴stated that sarcoid must be considered as an extremely rare cause of localized chorioretinitis, an assertion which is definitely borne out by

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