HEMANGIOMA OF A TENDON OR TENDON SHEATH

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In 1930 Burman and Milgram1 could find records of only sixteen cases of hemangioma of a tendon or of a tendon sheath, including six cases of their own and ten previously reported in the literature. In the present article a case is presented, and reports of eight more are collected from the literature, making the total of reported cases twenty-four. One of Burman and Milgram's cases is not included. REPORT OF CASES Case 1 (Richet,2 1860). —A child aged 10 years complained of swelling of the lower two thirds of the right forearm of twenty months' duration. No murmur was heard on auscultation, but pressure could produce filling and emptying. A diagnosis of a venous erectile tumor was made, and treatment by injections of ferric chloride gave perfect results. Case 2 (Delagénière,3 1894). —A seamstress aged 41 had noted seventeen years before operation that she had pain

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