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KANEHIKO KITAMURA, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952;66(2):276-280.

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THIS BRIEF discussion of gnathostomiasis in Japan will start with the history of so-called Yangtze edema.

Yangtze edema (chk-fushu in Japanese) during the past 50 years has occasionally occurred among Japanese people who lived in the Yangtze Kiang Valley in China. In 1902 Yamada¹ interpreted it as Quincke's acute circumscribed edema² because of the migrating intermittent swellings of the skin. Later it was regarded as a food allergy, for it occurs usually in people who have eaten uncooked fresh-water fish caught in the Yangtze district. Komaya, who studied this disease for years in Shanghai, pointed out some clinical differences between Yangtze and Quincke's edemas. He noted particularly the presence of superficial indurated areas and progressively extending linear eruptions and swellings in some cases of Yangtze edema. In general, the swellings of Yangtze edema are more compact, brighter red, and more inflammatory than the edematous, rather pale swellings . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
TOKYO, JAPAN

From the Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo.

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