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An Overlooked Essay of 1882

F. RONCHESE, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1958;77(5):542-545.

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In 1882 some 10 years after Kaposi's original paper, De Amicis reported 12 cases of Kaposi's sarcoma under the title of ``Dermo-polimelano-sarcoma idiopatico.'' The handsome monograph (107 pages, in quarto, with 12 plates, 6 of which are hand-colored) is cited, as far as I know, only in Jadassohn's handbook and by Becker and Thatcher¹ (From Jadassohn) and by Sachs, Azulay, and Convit.² It is not listed in the Surgeon General's index, while other publications of De Amicis are. The essay has been practically overlooked in the copious literature of the past 70-odd years on Kaposi's sarcoma. It is peculiar that in the Giornale italiano delle malattie veneree e della pelle (17:192, 1882) the monograph is listed among other publications received for review, but it was not reviewed. Peculiarly, another monograph by De Amicis was reviewed at length in the Giornale of 1883. The Annales . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Providence, R.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 14, 1957.

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