This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (16)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Report of a Case

HERMANN PINKUS, M.D.; JOHN N. GREKIN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1950;61(5):813-819.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

A SURVEY of textbooks and recent publications¹ indicates that asteroid tissue forms of Sporotrichum in human cases of sporotrichosis are found not uncommonly in South America and South Africa but are extremely rare in the Northern hemisphere. No case reports were found from Europe, and only 1, by Moore and Ackerman,^1a from the United States. The following case, therefore, may be of interest.

REPORT OF A CASE

J. H., a native-born white man aged 57 years, was referred to one of us (H. P.) because of a lesion on his right hand which had not healed in spite of medical treatment. The patient was a red-haired person with weather-beaten skin who presented several senile keratoses on face and hands. He was employed receiving baled waste paper in one of the local paper factories, and he related that a year and a half previously the end of a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MONROE, MICH.; DETROIT

From the Department of Dermatology, Dr. Loren W. Shaffer, Chairman, Wayne University Medical College.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?