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Jüngling's disease
Also known as:
Jüngling's polycystic osteitis
Perthes-Jüngling cystoid osteitis
Perthes-Jüngling disease
Associated persons:
Adolph Otto Jüngling
Georg Clemens Perthes
Description:
Jüngling's/Perthes-Jüngling disease is a particular ostitic manifestation of Boeck's sarcoidosis. A slowly progressive form of polycystic osteitis that also involves the surrounding soft tissue, originally observed in the fingers, toes, and nasal bone. Infection with strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis are believed to be responsible.
Bibliography:
- O. Jüngling:
Ostitis tuberculosa multiplex cystica (eine eigenartige Form der Knochentuberkulose).
Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Röntgenstrahlen, Hamburg, 1919-1921, 27: 375-383.
- G. C. Perthes, in:
Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1922, 69: 99.
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