Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 1940 · 33 citations · 0 references
MedicineOtolaryngologyPathologyGeneral PathologyLaryngologyPulmonologyAirway DiseasesAirway DisordersLaryngeal AnatomyLaryngeal InflammationRespiratory DiseaseRespiratory PathologyLaryngeal Pathology
This paper concerns itself in the main with a report of a case of sarcoidosis of the larynx and trachea. A diligent search of the literature failed to disclose an adequate report of involvement of those organs. Pinner,<sup>1</sup>in his excellent review of the literature on this subject of sarcoidosis, mentioned two reports in the foreign and one in the American literature. I examined the latter. It was by Longcope and Pierson.<sup>2</sup>Their report was as follows: "general oedema of epiglottis and laryngeal structures." That statement is of a general clinical nature, furnishing no specific information to the laryngologist. It was made as the designation of a clinical finding to account for the hoarseness of a patient suffering from generalized sarcoidosis. So far as I have been able to determine, the history to be given presently is the first report of sarcoid nodules in the larynx which includes a record