RHINOSCLEROMA

1 November 1937

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology

Vol. 36 (5) , 1018-1021
https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1937.01480050084011

Abstract

I have reported two cases of rhinoscleroma in California previously,¹and Bingham and Cutler²described a third. So far as I know, these are the only cases to have been reported in this state, although there may be many more undiscovered cases in this part of the country, for lesions are seen occasionally in the mouth only. It is possible that among the Mexican and Central American population there may be many "carriers." The subject of the present report lives in a district of the San Joaquin valley where there are many laborers from Mexico and Central America, but she stated that she had never seen any one with lesions like hers or like those in my collection of photographs. She was presented at a meeting of the San Francisco Dermatological Association in April 1936. REPORT OF CASE Mrs. B., an American housewife aged 29, was

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