CUTANEOUS ACTINOMYCOSIS

1 July 1937

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

Vol. 36 (1) , 131-139
https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1937.01480010135019

Abstract

Since Israel¹first described actinomycosis in man in 1877 several thousand cases have been reported in the international literature.²Majocchi³in 1882 was the first to report a case of actinomycosis of the skin occurring in a young woman. Primary actinomycosis of the skin, however, continues to be an exceedingly rare condition. Rauber⁴in 1925 collected fifty-six cases reported in the continental literature, and Klaber⁵in 1934 could find only ten additional cases of primary cutaneous actinomycosis in the world literature. Because of the rareness of actinomycosis of the skin we thought it worth while to report two cases recently observed in the wards of the Mount Sinai Hospital. REPORT OF CASES Case 1.— A man aged 66, a tailor, was first seen in the outpatient department of the surgical service on April 9, 1934. He complained of a small painless lump just below the xiphoid

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