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REINHARDT C. WENDE, M.D.; HAROLD A. SOLOMON, D.D.S.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1942;46(5):665-672.

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Although cutaneous fistulas of dental origin are rather common lesions, information concerning them is not as widespread as one might suppose. Interest in the recent reports of Anderson,¹ Montgomery,² Shelton,³ Eibrink Jansen,⁴ Thews⁵ and Kohn⁶ relative to these lesions, together with the number of cases referred to us as instances of "skin cancers," has led to this report.

Montgomery² stated: "Although rarely mentioned in differential diagnosis, the mouth of a fistula may so resemble a cutaneous cancer as to deceive one into treating it as such." He further cited MacKee and Cipollaro,⁷ who called attention to the fact that "long continued inflammatory processes not infrequently give rise to cancer."

Some question the degree of malignancy or the possibility of pseudo-epitheliomatous changes in such lesions. Both clinically and histopathologically a cutaneous fistula resembles an epithelioma of the skin. In one of our cases . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BUFFALO

From the State Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases, Burton T. Simpson, M.D., Director.

Footnotes
Read at a meeting of the Western New York Branch, American Association for Cancer Research, May 12, 1942.

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