Nervous and mental diseases . Fig. 231.—Microdactyly: localized hypertrophy ol a single finger (Ridlon). edema in instances marked by diffuse lipomatosis, but the hands, feet,and face are spared. It is of interest to remember that in five casesa diseased condition of the thyroid has been found post Fig. 232.—Chronic hereditary troplio-edenia iu sisters at seventeen and twenty-one years of age (Meige). The ill-defined fatty masses are commonly spread out at their borders1 Dercum and McCarthy, Amer. Jour. Med. Sciences, Dec, 1902. 524 NEUBOSES. into the surrounding tissue. They may, ho
Nervous and mental diseases . Fig. 231.—Microdactyly: localized hypertrophy ol a single finger (Ridlon). edema in instances marked by diffuse lipomatosis, but the hands, feet,and face are spared. It is of interest to remember that in five casesa diseased condition of the thyroid has been found post Fig. 232.—Chronic hereditary troplio-edenia iu sisters at seventeen and twenty-one years of age (Meige). The ill-defined fatty masses are commonly spread out at their borders1 Dercum and McCarthy, Amer. Jour. Med. Sciences, Dec, 1902. 524 NEUBOSES. into the surrounding tissue. They may, however, be globular or pyri-form and pendent. Their common location is subdermal. In slighter cases discontinuance of the use of alcohol or antiluetictreatment has caused the tumors to recede. In aggravated cases medicaltreatment has apparently accomplished little or nothing, but recourseto thyroid feeding promises more, in view of its effect on obesity andthe, at least occasional, presence of disease of the thyroid in these removal of the fatty tumors is sometimes indicated. Unsymmetrical Hypertrophies.—In rare instances, usually con-genital, and frequently of neurotic ancestry, one side of the body orone extremity, or a portion of an extremity, as a hand or one or moredigits, may
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