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EDWARD A. OLIVER, M.D.; JAMES R. WEBSTER, M.D.; JULIUS E. GINSBERG, M.D.; H. S. STEINBERG, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1949;60(5 PART I):701-716.

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DURING the past few years the attention of American dermatologists has been directed toward a rather wide variety of cutaneous lesions which have been difficult to catalogue in the previously accepted classifications of disorders of the skin but which have in common a granulomatous aspect and structure in which are found, on histologic examination, a striking number of eosinophils. As a purely descriptive convention, it has been convenient to adopt a term which was first used by Nanta and Gadrat,¹ in the European literature, namely, eosinophilic granulomas of the skin.

Lewis² was the first to present a case under this title in this country, and Weidman³ and Lewis and Cormia⁴ read excellent articles on this unusual condition before this association in 1946.

A study of the cases which have been reported with this designation reveals such variations with respect to appearance, course and association with other findings that it is readily apparent . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read at the Sixty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., San Diego, Calif., April 27, 1948.

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