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A Review

HERBERT KAPLAN, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1963;112(6):924-935.

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Jonathan Hutchinson, in 1877, in what is generally considered to be the first reported instance of sarcoidosis, remarked that, "I was inclined to consider the skin disease as essentially connected with gout." ¹ Twelve years later, in his classic description of uveoparotid fever, Heerfordt described an unexplained transient knee effusion in one of his patients.² In more recent times, Schaumann, whose name is often linked with that of Boeck in the nomenclature of sarcoidosis, described joint abnormalities in the disease.³ Despite these classic reports, it was not until the last decade that arthritis has been considered to be more than a rare and coincidental finding in patients with sarcoidosis. Although many isolated cases had been noted previously,^4-16 in 1952 Myers et al¹⁷ were the first to describe in detail a series of patients with significant articular disease, and then, in 1959, Sokoloff and Bunim¹⁸ reported their experience with sarcoid arthritis . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
DENVER

Clinical Instructor in Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Staff Physician, Denver Veterans Administration Hospital.; From the departments of medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Denver Veterans Administration Hospital.

Footnotes
Received for publication May 9, 1963; accepted June 27.

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