A CASE OF PROBABLE PARAFFIN-OIL TUMOR
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- 1 July 1921
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 4 (1) , 50-54
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1921.02350200053004
Abstract
In March, 1920, Mook and Wander1described for American literature, on the basis of a considerable series of cases, a foreign-body tumor of the arm, essentially a modification of the familiar "paraffinoma," following the hypodermic administration of adulterated camphorated oil in which the olive oil of the pharmacopeial preparation was replaced by liquid petrolatum. The preparation apparently had been used in the treatment of influenzal pneumonia. Clinically the paraffin-oil tumor described by Mook and Wander consists of a brawny indurated and nodular infiltration of the arm having the histologicstructure of a granuloma in the inflammatory phase and of a paraffinoma in the quiescent or fibrous stage. CASE REPORT Clinical Appearance of Tumor.— The clinical appearance of the tumor in the case reported was typical of the inflammatory phase. Chains and nodules extended from the lesion in the larger part of the anterior and posterior surfaces of the left upperKeywords
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