A case of myoma multiplex of the skin / by H. Radcliffe Crocker.

  • Crocker, H. Radcliffe (Henry Radcliffe), 1845-1909.
Date:
[1897?]
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Credit: A case of myoma multiplex of the skin / by H. Radcliffe Crocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Reprinted from the British Journal of Dermatology, Nos. 99 <£ 100, Vol. 9.] I CASE OF MYOMA MULTIPLEX OF THE SKIN. By H. RADCLIFFE CROCKER, M.D., F.R.C.P. (Bond.), Physician to the Skin Department, University College Hospital. Cases of multiple Myoma of the skin are extremely rare, there being only a dozen cases on record. Dermato-myomata have been classified by Babes in relation to the tissue from which the tumours have originated, into:— 1. Myomata springing from the vessel wall by proliferation of its muscular elements (angio-myomata). They are usually solitary and deep. •2. Hyperplasias of the arrectores pili forming multiple tumours, or portions of vascular mevi. 3. Neoplasms derived from the deep muscular layer of the skin (myome dartique of Besnier) diffuse as in Elephantiasis lymphangi- ectodes and Pachydermia myxomatodes, or circumscribed usually solitary, but sometimes multiple. 4. Myomata which reach the skin secondarily, or originate in mis- placed embryonic “ remnants.” Except as regards the solitary tumours under 3, and those of 2, which cover the majority of the cases of multiple tumours, these distinctions can rarely be made out without microscopical examination; and Besnier’s division, made from a dermatological standpoint, is simpler, viz., Myoma simplex, which includes the Myoma multiplex now under consideration, and Myomes dartoiques, which are usually solitary and spring from the dartos, and are chiefly interesting to the surgeon. This arrangement leaves out the cases included in Babes’ fourth division, originating below the skin, which is secondarily involved. B