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Identifier: breastitsanomali00deav (find matches)
Title: The breast: its anomalies, its diseases, and their treatment
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Deaver, John B. (John Blair), 1855-1931
Subjects: Breast Breast X-rays Breast Diseases Breast Neoplasms Radiotherapy
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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common in the experi-£nce of all surgeons. THE NON-INDIGENOUS TUMORS OF THE MAMMARY GLAND 347 It would not have been necessary to particularize at such length upon the preciseetymology and origin of the conception of keloid, had it not been for the accidental con-fusion injected into the subject through the mistake of Addison. This talented writerobserved several cases in which whitish patches formed in the skin and bore a remarkableresemblance to the scars that follow burns and brands. Conceiving that Alibert derivedthe word from the Greek /cTjXts, a brand or scar, and thinking that the lesions seen by himwere strikingly more like scars than the hyperplasia of tissue seen by Alibert, he cameto the conclusion that they were the real thing and thus made a distinction between the^keloid of Alibert and the true keloid. This confusion of ideas continued for some time, and it was not until after the subjecthad been carefully reviewed in the writings of Dieberg (Deutsche Klinik, 1852, IV,
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Fig. 137.—Ktloid of ihc breast following chronic suppurative mastitis. 369, 387, 463) and Fagge (Guys Hospital Reports, London, 1868, 3s., XIII, 255), andothers that it became finally cleared up. As now understood, the true keloid is the morbidgrowth described by Alibert; the scar-like formation observed and described by Addisonis not keloid at all, but is a localized scleroderma, scleriasis, or scleroma better knownamong dermatologists as morphea. I. The Keloid of Alibert.—i. Spontaneous Keloid (Aliberts Keloide vraie.)—Several cases in which these lesions occurred upon the breast are briefly mentionedby Alibert in the writings to which reference has been made. Crocker (Diseases ofthe Skin, Phila., 1903, p. 937) gives the following descriptioij of an interesting case: I saw a very peculiar case with Mr. Cursham Coover in a woman aged 67. Twenty-eight yearsbefore, the disease began in the right breast, like the sting of a wasp; it was not very red, and in fiveyears was only the

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