. The ready-reference handbook of diseases of the skin. to an excessive response on the part ofthe bloodvessels to an external irritation, and the consequentpouring out of an enormous amount of serous exudation. He 1 Journ. Cut. and I>is., 1895, xiii. p. 10. EPITHELIOMA. 207 regards it as an inflammatory process, originating in thecutis itself, and manifesting itself by the formation of bullaeafter slight or severe traumatisms. Epithelialkrebs. See Epithelioma. Epithelioxn Kystique Benin. See Adenoma of sweatglands. Epithelioma (E2p-i2-thel-i2-oma3). Synonyms: (Fr.)Epitheliome ca
. The ready-reference handbook of diseases of the skin. to an excessive response on the part ofthe bloodvessels to an external irritation, and the consequentpouring out of an enormous amount of serous exudation. He 1 Journ. Cut. and I>is., 1895, xiii. p. 10. EPITHELIOMA. 207 regards it as an inflammatory process, originating in thecutis itself, and manifesting itself by the formation of bullaeafter slight or severe traumatisms. Epithelialkrebs. See Epithelioma. Epithelioxn Kystique Benin. See Adenoma of sweatglands. Epithelioma (E2p-i2-thel-i2-oma3). Synonyms: (Fr.)Epitheliome cancroide; (Ger.) Epithelialkrebs; Cancroid,Skin cancer, Epithelial cancer, Noli me tangere. Epithelioma is a chronic, progressive, malignant newgrowth in the skin or mucous membrane, which is char-acterized by the formation of ulcers with raised, hard waxyedges, and by a strong tendency to return after apparentremoval by knife or caustic, Symptoms. Epithelioma always begins in a most inno-cent manner, and may be present for months or years be- FlG. Epithelioma.(From Prof. G. H. Foxs service at the Vanderbilt clinic.) fore the patient dreams that he has a serious disease. Itmay occur upon the skin alone, or upon the mucous mem-brane alone, or upon both the skin and mucous membraneat their line of juncture. Epitheliomas occurring upon thetongue, larynx, or uterus do not concern us here, as theybelong to the domain of surgery. The starting-point of the 208 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. disease may be a crack or an abraded scaly spot, as on thelip; a small, flat, scaly, sebaceous patch; a white, pearlylooking, hard nodule ; a senile or other wart or papilloma;a pigmentary mole ; a cicatrix ; an adenoma; a chronic orlupous ulcer; a psoriatic patch, or some other new growth inthe skin. Some of these lesions may have been present formany years, as, for instance, a mole. Some appear but ashort time before they frankly declare their nature, such asthe waxy nodule. However it may begin, afte
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