The ready reference handbook of diseases of the skin (1908) (14762004224)

Condyloma lata (syphilis)

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Title: The ready reference handbook of diseases of the skin

Year: 1908 (1900s)

Authors: Jackson, George Thomas, 1852- (from old catalog)

Subjects: Skin

Publisher: New York and Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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regions. Itmay occur alone or with the lenticular syphilide. It usu-ally follows the latter or appears when it is fading. Itfrequently comes as a relapsing syphilide, and often ap-pears late in the second year. It has a flattened surfaceand a circular outline. The lesions often coalesce andform patches which frequently become scaly and resem-ble psoriasis. The scaling is never very great; the scalesare thin and adherent, and do not cover the whole patch. 616 DISEASES OF THE SKIN. They frequently occur upon the flexor aspect of the ex-tremities and in the bends of the joints. Instead offorming patches by coalescence, the individual papule mayenlarge at the circumference and become depressed at thecentre and form circinate lesions, whose surface maybecome moist. The moist papule or mucous patch is a modified formof the lenticular papule, and is simply a papule subject toheat and moisture. It is found where two folds of skinrub together, as in the peno-scrotal fold, between the Fig. 83.

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Condylomata lata. (After Tayok.) scrotum and inside of the thigh, around the anus andvulva, and upon mucous membranes. It is of circularshape and has a flattened surface which is sometimes de-pressed in the centre. Newly formed ones have a bright-red or raw appearance, but they soon become coveredwith a dirty whitish coating made up of thickened andsoftened epidermis. About the anus and vulva they formlarge flattened tubercules called condylomata lata. (Fig.84.) They give forth a most offensive odor when notkept clean. When in the mouth they form opalinepatches, looking as if the mucous membrane had beenpenciled with nitrate of silver. They are usually notelevated. If at the angle of the mouth, they are generallyfissured. The mucous patch is one of the most conta- SYPHILIS. 617 gious of syphilitic lesions, the evidence of infection beingan initial lesion of syphilis, and not a mucous patch. Itis also at times, especially when it comes late in the dis-ease, most obstinate to treatment,

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