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REPORT OF A CASE, WITH HISTOLOGIC CRITERIA

M. H. GOODMAN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1929;20(1):10-21.

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Examples of definitely proved adenomas of the sweat glands are difficult to find in a survey of the literature on this subject. The evidence for the establishment of such a diagnosis in the earlier reports of cases has been chiefly presumptive. Thierfelder¹ referred to the previously reported cases of tumors of the sweat glands, among which he included those of Verneuil and of Lotzbeck, as instances of simple hypertrophy; he himself reported a case of suspicious tumor of the sweat glands occurring on the forehead. On removal, this tumor was found to have invaded the bone to the meninges; it was extremely vascular, ample proof of its malignant nature. The patient died within a few days after the operation. Thierfelder assumed that the tumor arose from "sprouts, which in this case certainly have originated during embryonic life."

Hoggan² reported a case of adenoma of the sweat glands under . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

From the Department of Pathology, University of Maryland.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Feb. 19, 1929.

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