Sarcoid of Boeck

Classification of the Hematologic Variations and Abnormalities Associated with Boeck ’ S Sarcoid

By MARCO BRUSCHI, M.D., AND JOHN S. HOWE, M.D. T HE PURPOSE of this paper is to classify the hematologic variations and abnormalities associ ated wi th Boeck’s sarcoid, to discuss whether the abnormalities are causally or coincidentally related and to present a case of thrombocytopenic purpura associated with sarcoidosis with recovery following splenectomy. It should be pointed out that althoug...

Iritis Boeck (sarkoid of Boeck in Iris).

Professor C. W. Boeck

world generally. Wilhelm Boeck was born at Kongsberg in 1808, became a student in 1S27. Doctor in 1831; he was elected member of the Storthing in 1845 and Professor at the University in 1846. Boeck's name and scientific merits stand in special connexion witli his investigation of two of the most terrible forms of disease which have afflicted and still afflict the human race. Of one of these, Le...

"Residual bodies" in sarcoid and sarcoid-like granulomas.

A MORPHOLOGICAL AND HISTOCHEMICAL STUDY WAS MADE OF EPITHELIOID CELL GRANULOMAS: (a) classical sarcoid type, namely, sarcoidosis, Kveim tests, tuberculosis, farmer's lung, and Crohn's syndrome; (b) sarcoid-like granulomas, often distinguishable from (a) by the presence of extracellular mucin or bile, namely, ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, cholecystitis, cholangitis, carcinoma of the rectum...

[Boeck's sarcoid].

The various theories regarding the etiology only serve to demonstrate how much there is yet to be proved about this disease. Boeck originally considered the disease to be a constitutional one, caused by a non-virulent form of tubercle bacillus. This opinion is still held by a large number of men. A comparatively high proportion of cases will later develop an active tuberculosis. Pinner believes...