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ARTHUR B. KERN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1950;62(4):515-525.

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SQUAMOUS cell carcinoma and granuloma inguinale at times resemble each other so closely that differentiation on clinical grounds alone may be impossible. Speiser¹ and Pund and Greenblatt² reported 4 and 2 cases, respectively, of granuloma inguinale of the cervix which were diagnosed clinically as carcinoma. Philpott³ reported a case of granuloma inguinale of the penis which simulated carcinoma, the correct diagnosis not being established until Donovan bodies were demonstrated in the depths of the tissue when the granulomatous mass was excised. Chen, Greenblatt and Dienst,⁴ in a series of 95 referred patients in whom the disease had been diagnosed as granuloma inguinale, found that 6 (6.3 per cent) actually had squamous cell carcinoma. Moore⁵ reported a case which was clinically diagnosed as carcinoma of the penis and which was not proved to be granuloma inguinale until, after many biopsies, Donovan bodies were found. It . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
PROVIDENCE, R. I.

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology of the New York University Post-Graduate Medical School, Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger, chairman, and the Service of Dermatology and Syphilology of Bellevue Hospital, Dr. Frank C. Combes, chief of service.

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