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LOUIS J. SOFFER, M.D.; CLARENCE COHN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1943;71(5):630-649.

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GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

In 1891 Recklinghausen^1a described a curious disease of bone characterized by destruction and repair, marked softening of the bones and the presence of odd cysts. He recognized the similarity of his cases to that described by Engel^1b some twenty-seven years previously. Recklinghausen was not aware of any endocrine disorder associated with the bony changes which he described. As a matter of fact, during the course of the next number of years many pathologists² noted tumors of the parathyroid glands in the presence of certain kinds of bone disease but failed to grasp the etiologic relationship between the two. Erdheim³ was probably the first to recognize more than a casual relationship between the bony changes and the hyperplasia of the parathyroid glands in cases of osteomalacia, although his explanation of the observed phenomena later proved to be inadequate. It is easy to understand the early . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Medical Service of Dr. George Baehr and the Department of Chemistry, Laboratories of the Mount Sinai Hospital.

Footnotes
Eugene Meyer Jr. Fellow.

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