VOL. XX.
APRIL, 1902.
NO. 4.
Original Communications.
CANCER OF THE SKIN.
BY J. A. FORDYCE, MD,
New York City;
Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology in the University and Bellevue
Hospital Medical College.
Cancer of the skin is at times characterized by certain definite features,
which differ radically from those met with in malignant growths of the mucous
membranes or the viscera. It is often relatively benign in its course, frequently
multiple in its manifestations, and sometimes preceded by precancerous epithelial
changes of indefinite duration.
There is little tendency to tumor formation in certain varieties of
cutaneous cancer; the new growth is of so unstable a character that it undergoes
ulceration almost as rapidly as it forms. It is this predominating characteristic
that gave rise to the designation of rodent ulcer before its true nature was
understood. The absence of lymph-node infection and general metastasis in
the rodent ulcer . . . [Full Text of this Article]
