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An Unusual Case with Involvement of the Skin, Lungs and Kidneys

PAUL ADAMS, M.D.; JOHN E. KRAUS, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1950;61(6):957-970.

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THE TERM "eosinophilic granuloma" usually refers to a specific bone lesion considered by some (particularly Jaffe and Lichtenstein¹) to be the early monosymptomatic form of Hand-Schüller-Christian disease. This concept is well supported by Holm, Teilum and Christensen's² report of 6 cases showing a gradual transition from the early solitary lesion to the picture of Hand-Schüller-Christian disease.

However the term "eosinophilic granuloma" has not been confined to this entity. It has been applied to other conditions, apparently different from Hand-Schüller-Christian disease. Curtis and Cawley³ reported the case of a girl whose condition was similar to a seborrheic dermatitis with small, red, discrete and coalescent papules on the buttocks and eroded patches in the mouth. In each axilla weeping, sharply demarcated erythematous papules were noted. Roentgenologic examination showed destructive lesions of a rib and the ilium. Biopsy specimens of the lesions of the skin . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PEORIA, ILL.

From the Department of Pathology, St. Francis Hospital.

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