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Observations Based on a Study of Two Hundred Cases

ESTEBAN REYES, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1946;54(5):531-537.

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RHINOSCLEROMA (scrofulous lupus of the nostrils, nasal scleroma) is a chronic disease of relatively benign evolution, whose contagiousness is doubtful; it is nonhereditary. Its anatomic characteristic is a tumor formation of varying volume, of waxy or reddish appearance and with a decided tendency to ulcerate and spread. It is invariably located in the rhinopharyngeal region.

HISTORY

In the Museum of the History of Medicine, of Cracow, Poland,¹ there are wax models of this disease made in the year 1840, which were exhibited by Bierkowsky as cutaneous cancers. Hebra² (1870) was the first to make a clinical description of this curious disease, naming it rhinoscleroma (hard nose). At that time it was mistaken for syphilis and sarcoma. Geber³ in 1872 and Mikulicz⁴ in 1876 histologically demonstrated its sclerotic tissue. In 1882 Frisch⁵ discovered an encapsulated bacillus which now bears his name and which he . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
EL SALVADOR, CENTRAL AMERICA

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology of the "Rosales" Hospital, San Salvador, El Salvador, C. A.

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