Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . Condition, In 1889, before eulargemeut of head and neck Condition, in 1894, showing uniform enlargement of tlie liead. The striking feature of this disease and its chief characteristic is aslowly progressing increase in the size of the head, face, and neck,both t)je hard and soft tissues being apparently aflfected. The gkin is 948 TBOPHIC NEUBOSES. cliifusely thickened to a slight extent, is thrown into folds and notmerely stretched over the enlarged bones, as it would be were it notinvolved in the process ; a
Organic and functional nervous diseases; a text-book of neurology . Condition, In 1889, before eulargemeut of head and neck Condition, in 1894, showing uniform enlargement of tlie liead. The striking feature of this disease and its chief characteristic is aslowly progressing increase in the size of the head, face, and neck,both t)je hard and soft tissues being apparently aflfected. The gkin is 948 TBOPHIC NEUBOSES. cliifusely thickened to a slight extent, is thrown into folds and notmerely stretched over the enlarged bones, as it would be were it notinvolved in the process ; and while it is not rough or scaly, is slightlypigmented and has something the appearance of the skin in myxoe-deraa. The subcutaneous tissue is also diifusely thickened, so that itthrows the skin out and forms a loose body beneath it. The boneappears to be the portion primarily and chiefly affected, just as inacromegaly. There is apparently a general hypertrophy of the boneover the entire calvariura, more marked just behind the is not limited to definite small areas, but is quite uniform every-where, so that the skull is
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