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

JOSEPH V. KLAUDER, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1959;80(4):481-482.

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

When first seen, the patient, a man, age 65, presented a node on the dorsum of the right hand. It was firm, circumscribed 1 cm. in diameter and raised about 0.75 cm. Its surface was crusted. It appeared 18 months previously, when he was in Japan. He thought it was caused by the bite of an insect. About one year later it was excised; the site never healed. The lesion gradually returned to its former state.

Although it resembled acanthoma, it was not clearly such a lesion; nor was it regarded as a keratotic nodule, epithelioma, or molluseum contagiosum. Since the patient stated that at times there was a discharge of pus, a low-grade pyogenic infection was suggested. Accordingly, a wet dressing of an antiseptic solution and neomycin ointment was prescribed.

When seen again, the top of the lesion was macerated; when the surface was rubbed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Philadelphia

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 26, 1959.

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