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?

("SYNOVIAL" LESION OF THE SKIN)

LOUIS SAVATARD

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1924;9(4):441-445.

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

American writers have described these peculiar tumors under the name synovial lesions of the skin. Hyde¹ was apparently the first to direct attention to them. Later Lingenfelter,² Ormsby³ and Sutton,⁴ reported cases, and recently MacKee and Andrews⁵ and Montgomery and Culver⁶ have recorded cases and discussed their pathology. The situation of the fibromas, their gelatinous contents and the apparent extension of their capsule to the articulation, suggested that they were intimately related to the synovial membrane of the interphalangeal articulations. Hence, on clinical grounds they were considered to be of synovial origin. MacKee and Andrews confirm this finding by roentgenographic and histologic examinations. Montgomery and Culver, on the other hand, apparently on clinical inspection alone, emphatically deny their synovial connection, and state that they are merely cystic warts.

Shortly after MacKee and Andrews' last paper, three cases came under my observation and so provided . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND

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