CUTANEOUS RHEUMATIC NODULES
- 1 September 1934
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology
- Vol. 30 (3) , 377-384
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1934.01460150043004
Abstract
A careful review of the literature on rheumatism fails to disclose any definite description of cutaneous rheumatic nodules. The reports thus far have been limited to a description of subcutaneous rheumatic nodules. The clinical reports are more numerous than the pathologic, and most of them present no pathologic description. The nodules are called subcutaneous, but the number of these which may have been cutaneous is not known, for there is no description of biopsies. Since the cases presented here showed rheumatic nodules in the cutis, it is of interest to report them. Another interesting feature is that they occurred in adults. The earliest cases of subcutaneous rheumatic nodules were seen in children and were reported by Hillier1 in 1868. Meynet,2 in 1875, described a case in a boy of 14 years, who had several attacks of acute articular rheumatism with freely movable ephemeral soft nodules along the tendonsThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: