
pmid: 14884702
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 Pinkus 1 and by Lever and Leeper 2 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 CASE1.—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
Granuloma, Face, Eosinophilia, Humans, Disease, Lipidoses
Granuloma, Face, Eosinophilia, Humans, Disease, Lipidoses
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