SPIEGLER-FENDT SARCOID
- 1 October 1942
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 46 (4) , 489-495
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1942.01500160023004
Abstract
Sarcoids of the skin, according to Ewing,1 are tumor-like growths, single or multiple, that progress by infiltrating the tissues, often regress or disappear and do not produce metastasis, although appearing in numerous foci. They present in their earliest stages or throughout their existence the histologic picture of an inflammatory lesion, which, however, may sometimes assume a more or less distinct neoplastic character. Members of the group of sarcoids, according to Ewing, are mycosis fungoides, multiple benign sarcoids of Boeck and Spiegler-Fendt sarcoid. It is with the last subject that I endeavor to deal. The two outstanding papers on Spiegler-Fendt sarcoid were one by Sweitzer2 in 1925 and one by Lewis3 in 1935. Lewis collected from the literature 30 cases and reported 4 cases of his own. The last case of Spiegler-Fendt sarcoid was reported by Epstein4 in 1940. He stated that only 5 instances of thisThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: