A case of 'angeio-keratoma' / by William Anderson.

  • Anderson, William, 1842-1900.
Date:
[1898?]
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Credit: A case of 'angeio-keratoma' / by William Anderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is twenty years ago since the disease now known as Angeio- keratoma was first described by Cottle in the St. George’s Hospital Reports (1878), but the record long escaped notice. A case seen by Crocker in 1885 is mentioned in his work on “ Diseases of the Skin.” In 1886 and 1889 a number of cases were published independently by Colcott Fox. In 1889 the anatomical seat of the condition was recognized by Mibelli, and further careful and minute observations were added by Pringle in 1891. Since this time many cases have been reported by Dubreuilh, Tommasoli, Thibierge, Audry, Joseph, Ford3’ce,t and others. The disease may be described as a multiple capillary angeiectasis, tending to the formation of small tumour-like prominences under the epidermis. It is almost invariably localised to the hands or feet, or both, but occasionally invading other parts of the body. In the hands and feet it is nearly always associated with a tendency to chilblains, and sometimes with more or less local asphyxia, and the superjacent epidermis undergoes a verrucose thickening (whence the name “ keratoma ”), but the cuticular hypertrophy is absent when the growths affect other parts of the body, and is, therefore, not an essential part of the complaint. It appears to be equally common in * The case was shown at the Dermatological Society of London in December last, but the notes were held over until they could be published in full. f Journal of Cutaneous and Genito-Urinary Diseases, N.Y., March, 189G. Full bibliographical references will be found in this article. U By WILLIAM ANDERSON, F.R.C.S.