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Secondary skin cancer in nineteenth‐century Britain
Author(s) -
ONUIGBO WILSON I.B.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1976.tb06126.x
Subject(s) - skin cancer , medicine , dermatology , history , family medicine , library science , classics , cancer , computer science
SUMMARY Clinico‐pathological data on secondary skin cancer are of current interest. This paper therefore reviews such data with special reference to nineteenth‐century Britain. The old authors were interested in such diverse aspects of the problem of skin secondaries as the mode of invasion, the forms of presentation, the patterns of distribution, clinical diagnosis, microscopic diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Although skin secondaries were of serious prognostic import, all cases showing them were not hopeless.