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REPORT OF A CASE

J. F. BURGESS, M.B.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1925;12(5):642-648.

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Schenck¹ (1899) and Hektoen and Perkins² (1900) first recorded the occurrence of chronic inflammatory lesions in man due to a pathogenic variety of Sporotrichum. Later, de Beurmann and Gougerot³ (1906-1912) described clearly the clinical and mycologic aspects of this disease, and stressed the importance of its recognition.

De Beurmann and Gougerot have classified the lesions of sporotrichosis into two main types: (1) a gummatous disseminated type, in which the scattered nodular lesions soften and remain more or less stationary, or break down, giving rise to tuberculoid, syphiloid or a mixed type of chronic ulcer; (2) a type in which the lesions are localized. Usually an initial lesion comparable to a syphilitic chancre develops, and this is associated with an ascending lymphangitis and nodular swellings at intervals along the course of the lymphatics.

A rarer variety is that in which gumma-like lesions develop without any evidence of lymphatic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Assistant in the Department of Dermotology, Montreal General Hospital; Demonstrator in Dermatology, McGill University MONTREAL, CANADA

From the Department of Dermatology and Pathology of the Montreal General Hospital. This work was made possible by the assistance of a grant from the Cooper Memorial Fund, McGill University.

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