. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . ing in the literature on this subject, withthe exception of one reference in Dicksonsarticle, in which he stated the x-ray had noresults. In regard to the question as to whether theorganism is the same as that found in rabbits,will say that it is not. The name of this diseaseis really a misnomer. It is due to a mould-likegrowth and not due to protozoa. REPORT OF TWO CASES OF XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM WITH MALIGNANCY OF THE EYEBALL SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY ROENTGEN RAY* BY G. W. GRIER, Roentgenologist to St. Margaret
. The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine . ing in the literature on this subject, withthe exception of one reference in Dicksonsarticle, in which he stated the x-ray had noresults. In regard to the question as to whether theorganism is the same as that found in rabbits,will say that it is not. The name of this diseaseis really a misnomer. It is due to a mould-likegrowth and not due to protozoa. REPORT OF TWO CASES OF XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM WITH MALIGNANCY OF THE EYEBALL SUCCESSFULLY TREATED BY ROENTGEN RAY* BY G. W. GRIER, Roentgenologist to St. Margaret Memorial Hospital, Passavant Hospital, St. Johns General Hospital, PittsburghInstructor in Roentgenology, University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, v\. XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM is adisease of the skin characterized byextreme atrophy, pigmented spots, andlater by the development of malignantgrowths. The condition resembles to anastonishing degree a chronic x-ray derma-titis, or the malignant degeneration wesometimes see in the aged. It nearlyalways starts in childhood and occurs in. Fig. I. C.\sE I. Klmli ai ilk TrilaimiiNI. Thu nghteye is artificial, having been lost after unsuccessfultreatment by operation and radium. family groups. The two cases herein re-ported arc brother and sister. Accordingto the patients statement, a similar con-dition prevailed in the fathers sister, thefathers father and the fathers grand- *Read before the Twentieth Annual Meeting of The American Roentgen Ray Society, Saratoga Springs, N. V father. The striking peculiarity in ourcases was the occurrence of malignantlesions of the eyeball, involving both eyesin one case and one eye, the right, in theother case. Case I. Lena R., female, aged August i, 1917, by Dr. StanleySmith for treatment of a malignant lesionof left eyeball. About one year ago, a smallgrowth appeared on right eyeball whichwas removed by Dr. Smith and sectionmade, which proved the growth to becarcinomatous. It retvuned in a
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