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SAMUEL PECK, M.D.; LAURENCE L. PALITZ, M.D., Ph.D.; ELLEN REINER, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952;65(2):216-223.

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FROM THE extensive literature recently published concerning ``eosinophilic granuloma of the skin," there seems to have emerged a group of cases in which the disease is distinctive enough clinically, and specific enough histologically to constitute an entity. The condition has been called "facial granuloma with eosinophilia'' or ``granuloma faciale'' by Cobane, Straith, and Pinkus¹ and by Lever and Leeper² to differentiate it from lesions found accompanying eosinophilic granuloma of bone, with which it apparently has no connection. It is the purpose of this study further to advance the concept of this entity by describing two cases in addition to the nine already reported in the literature.

REPORT OF CASES

CASE 1.—R. C., a 38-year-old woman, was first seen at Mount Sinai Clinic Sept. 24, 1943. At that time she presented an 0.8-by-0.8-cm. nodule on the right cheek, which had been present for one year. The lesion . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Dermatology, Mount Sinai Hospital.

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