The Diagnosis of Boeck's Sarcoid by Skeletal Muscle Biopsy
- 1 December 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
- Vol. 98 (6) , 732-736
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1956.00250300050007
Abstract
Skeletal muscle biopsy has been found useful in obtaining pathological tissue representative of the underlying disease process in a number of conditions. These include trichiniasis and polyarteritis nodosa,2in which specimens of diagnostic value may be found. In addition, in dermatomyositis3and certain types of muscular dystrophy helpful histological evidence may be found by such a biopsy.4In 1952, Myers5and his co-workers, reporting on the joint and skeletal manifestations of sarcoidosis, noted granulomata in the skeletal muscle of three of their cases. They suggested that random gastrocnemius muscle biopsy be further evaluated as a diagnostic procedure in Boeck's sarcoid. Since then one report has appeared in the foreign literature dealing with muscle biopsy in the diagnosis of sarcoidosis.6In view of the importance of obtaining a specimen of tissue containing the characteristic granuloma as a diagnostic aid in the patient suspected of this disease, further study of the possibilitiesThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: