Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . Fig. i. Keloid The patientstates that whilst the tumors are not particularly uncomfort-able, so far as their location and size is concerned, they do occasionallyelicit a great deal of pain, this being very much allied to neuralgia in itscharacter. The pain is sharp and shooting, spreading in various direc-tions, audit seems to recognize a keloid as a center of distribution for all ofits ramifications over an affected area. There is added to this a certainamount of itching, which may become very marked. In addition to these 428 Original Articles. sub
Tri-State medical journal and practitioner . Fig. i. Keloid The patientstates that whilst the tumors are not particularly uncomfort-able, so far as their location and size is concerned, they do occasionallyelicit a great deal of pain, this being very much allied to neuralgia in itscharacter. The pain is sharp and shooting, spreading in various direc-tions, audit seems to recognize a keloid as a center of distribution for all ofits ramifications over an affected area. There is added to this a certainamount of itching, which may become very marked. In addition to these 428 Original Articles. subjective symptoms, suppuration is to be found. It is not of a markedcharacter, but rather deep. According to the patients statement, thesetumors have suppurated at times, and the process last for a certain is this destructive action occurring at the center which produces the ap-parent umbilication which is observed. Handling the keloid does notseem to produce any particular pain under ordinary conditions; but, whenthe neuralgic pai
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