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STUART C. WAY, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1930;22(2):301-304.

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Angiokeratoma was carefully studied and named in 1889 by Mibelli,¹ who was the first to investigate minutely its pathologic histology. Prior to this, it had been described under a diversity of names.

The disease, which is a rare one, usually occurs on the backs of the hands and the dorsal surface of the toes. It has been observed on many other areas, but there is some question whether all of the reported cases are true examples of angiokeratoma.

The lesions are made up of minute vascular dilatations or telangiectases, pinpoint to pinhead in size, of a hue varying from dusky pink to deep purple, simulating, sometimes, a purpura, and situated on a verrucous base of variable thickness.

The histopathology of angiokeratoma as originally described by Mibelli presents a fairly characteristic picture, but owing to the admission into the literature of many borderline cases, slight confusion and differences of opinion . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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SAN FRANCISCO

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Submitted for publication, Jan. 17, 1930.

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