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I! The only reason I'm asking, Jerry Kane of Michigan
seems to think that the use of cortisone may ledd to sporac-
! ic sclerosis; X don't know.
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Well, I think it might easily be true, but' I I
> think in the case of beryllium poisoning, you have- to 'sort ' ; ' * 1
of take the choice and play your cards as you go.
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Is that a general tendency in cortisone?
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Yes, it's been my experience in talking with DocI
tor Max-Michel, who has treated very many of these, that jou
`may get brilliant results in treatenent of sarcoidosis with
ACTH or cortisone, but as I pointed out in that swift-running
survey summary, just given you, I have seen cases of sarcoi:!
dosis that simply will not respond in any way to ACTH and
1! cortisone, and I have^seen - I have even seen cases recent-
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I been made worse, and have proven this by pulmonary function
studies and a clinical downhill course of obviously inerets-
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ing replacement of the granular tissue. This I have not
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