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G. PANJA, M.B., D.Bact. (Lond), F.N.I., F.D.S. (Lond); S. N. CHAUDHURI, B.Sc., M.B.B.S. (Cal)

AMA Arch Derm. 1958;77(6):651-655.

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This is the first time that a remarkable case of a disease very similar to histiocytoma cutis described by European and American workers is put on record in India by us. No case in India has been reported before.

Unna (1896) described a condition known as fibroma simplex and found the lesion moderately cellular and composed of coarse collagen bundles. Woringer (1931) first proposed the name histiocytoma, as he found phagocytic cells filled with lipoids in the lesions. He regarded histiocytoma as young dermatofibroma because he believed that the histiocytes were the parent cells of the fibroblasts. Sézary et al. (1933) described histiocytoma as a solitary tumor with a predilection for the extremities and composed of fibroblasts showing short spindles, richer in protoplasm, with larger nuclei, and containing intracellular lipoids and sometimes multinucleated giant cells. Sézary et al. (1933) differentiated histiocytoma from fibroma and xanthoma. Michelson . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Calcutta, India

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 26, 1956.

Late of the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine (Dr. Panja).

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