As the ulcerative changes take place, new lesions, especially about the periphery of the group or patch, may appear from time to time.
In the severe or malignant type the eruption is more profuse; there is marked, and often grave, systemic depression, and the lesions are attended with ulcerative action.
An ulcerative papillomatous or verrucous tuberculosis of the skin (tuberculosis verrucosa cutis) is also occasionally noted, most commonly seated upon the lower leg or the back of the hand.
In rare instances there is a disposition, at points, to spontaneous involution and scar formation; as a rule, however, the ulcerative action slowly progresses.
The term is applied to those peculiar suppurative and ulcerative conditions of the skin due to the tubercle bacilli.
In none of the more common ulcerative skin lesions would the conditions for the development of cancer seem to be more favorable than in chronic dermatitis with ulceration; the despised and neglected varicose ulcers of the leg.
Complete extirpation of the ulcerative lesions has been successful, but curetting does not always prevent their recurrence.
In some cases the lachrymal bone is involved in the ulcerative process and becomes carious.
This effect is due in part to alterations not in the growth itself, but in the accompanying ulcerative process.
The bone becomes thickened towards the surface by new deposit, as the cavity is increased by ulcerative absorption, and relief is only afforded, a correct diagnosis having been formed, by artificial evacuation of the matter.
If there be no great loss of substance, deficiency in the soft parts may be repaired by operation after the ulcerative disposition has ceased.
In adults, the curvature from ulcerative absorption is more common than that from softening of the bones.
In this situation it gradually made its way through the parts which it embraced by ulcerative action, at the same time that it produced strong adhesion between the two folds of the bowel.
This latter tissue may resist the ulcerative process, and will then be pushed forward into the opening by the pressure of the aqueous fluid.
The sore is often covered by an ash-coloured slough; on the removal of which, granulations arise, but these either again slough, or are removed rapidly by the ulcerative process.
In severe cases a time may be reached when death of parts from the strangling pressure may occur, and then we have an ulcerative catarrh.
Parts of the fingers or toes, whole fingers or toes, and entire hand or foot may become wholly or partially detached by the ulcerative and other degenerations.
Certain nervous people suffer from ulcerative conditions of their hands, and it is evident that in some the nervous impulses {89} that would ordinarily keep the skin surface in good, healthy condition are insufficient.
Some people who use a typewriter have no difficulty at all with the ends of their fingers, while others are subject even to loss of skin or ulcerative conditions that make it almost impossible for them to go on with their work.
Even a slight injury to the arm will now produce a serious ulcerative condition.
There are certain cracks of the skin with ulcerative lesions which occur in hysterical patients in the neighborhood of the knuckles that represent a phase of unfavorable influence of the mind.
The transparency of the cornea is mainly lost by imflammation (keratitis), which causes either an infiltration of its tissues with leucocytes, or a more focal, more destructive ulcerative process.
Primary keratitis may be ulcerative or non-ulcerative, superficial or deep, diffuse or circumscribed, vascularized or non-vascularized.
Exostosis and ulcerative arthritis are sequelæ which often resist every form of treatment.
Ulcerative arthritis and suppurative synovitis may be developed otherwise than in connection with open joints; the simplest and apparently most harmless punctures may prove to be sufficient cause.
The mischief is done; a simple, harmless, punctured wound has expanded into a case of ulcerative arthritis and suppurative synovitis.
Ulcerative endocarditis may develop on a mild endocarditis, with disintegration of tissue and deep points of erosion, and there may be little pockets of pus or little abscesses in the muscle tissue.
They are not separate entities, and a mild endocarditis may become an ulcerative endocarditis with malignant symptoms.
Whether milk or any other substance containing lime makes fibrin deposits on the ulcerative surfaces more likely or more profuse, and therefore emboli more liable to occur, is perhaps an undeterminable question.
The vaccine treatment of ulcerativeendocarditis was not shown to be very successful by Dr.
At times the edges of the valves may grow together fromulcerative inflammation, and the lumen thus be diminished in size; or projecting vegetations may interfere with the opening of the valve and with the flow of blood.
Although mild endocarditis rarely causes death of itself, it may develop into an ulcerative endocarditis, and then be serious per se.
Ulcerative endocarditis was for a long time believed to be inevitably fatal; it is now known that a small proportion of patients with this disease recover.
Occasionally the ulcerations become serious, andulcerative endocarditis or malignant endocarditis develops on the mild inflammation.
Ulcerative or infectious inflammation commonly occurs in young, and occasionally in old, debilitated animals.
The specific cause of ulcerativesore mouths is the Bacillus necrophorus (Fig.
Cicatricial stenosis developing late in life without history of the swallowing of escharotics or ulcerative lesions is strongly suggestive of syphilis, though the late manifestation of a congenital stenosis is a possibility.
Ulcerative lesions in the larynx during typhoid fever are almost always the result of mixed infection, though thrombosis of a small vessel, with subsequent necrosis is also seen.
As in any ulcerative lesion, the inflammatory changes of mixed infections mask the basic nature.
The removal of tuberculomata is sometimes indicated, and the excision of limited ulcerativelesions situated elsewhere than on the epiglottis may be curative.
The root in decoction is an excellent remedy for other skin diseases of the scaly, itching, vesicular, pimply andulcerative characters.
The unripe fruit is laxative, and of beneficial use in thrush, and in ulcerative sore throat.
For this reason, both grapes and honey do good to the affection known as thrush, with sore raw mouth, and tongue in ulcerative white patches, coming on as a derangement of the health.
The fluid extract made from the plant is curative of any ulcerative soreness within the mouth, such as nurses' sore mouth, or canker.
In many instances it is probably independent of any secondary infection, since it occurs in both ulcerative and non-ulcerative cases.
Vincent's angina is a chronic pseudomembranous andulcerative inflammation of pharynx and tonsils.
Bacillus and spirillum of Vincent, from case of ulcerative stomatitis.
Small amounts, detected only by the microscope, are present in catarrhal and ulcerative conditions of the intestine, the number of pus-cells corresponding to the severity and extent of the process.
Among other common causes are unequal or imperfect development of the nasal bones, due to an inherited strumous tendency and local ulcerative disease, weakening or destroying the bone.
This variety of ulcerative degeneration is the most frequent, and may exist for some time without exciting any suspicion in the mind of the patient that she is afflicted with any such morbid condition.
Still, this result is extremely rare if the ulcerative process has gained much headway.
The only contraindication to the use of the lancet, except in ulcerative odontitis, as before mentioned, is the existence of a hemorrhagic diathesis.
The source of profuse hemorrhage is in some large vessel eroded by the ulcerative process.
The ulcerative variety, when not due to syphilis or tuberculosis, is usually of septic origin, and is apt to occur in the debilitated especially.
By extension of the ulcerative process abnormal communication is established between the left and the right half of the stomach or between the stomach and the duodenum.
Various neoplasms having their seat in the tissues or organs near the bowel may obstruct it by simple mechanical pressure, or may cause inflammation, infiltration, and ulcerative erosion.
Whether the stricture will be valvular or annular depends upon the extent of rectal mucous membrane involved in the ulcerative process.
These manifestations are much more frequent in the palate than in the pharynx, and the ulcerative process often destroys the uvula and large portions of the palate and palatine folds.
The local disease is essentially an ulcerative pharyngitis or pharyngo-laryngitis, as may be, extremely rapid in its progress, and terminating fatally within a few weeks, or a few months at farthest.
It did not occur in our cases, but both Begbie and Paterson report cases of it which required tracheotomy, and Wyss and Bock met with ulcerative laryngitis with perichondritis.
The mineral acids may be given during the ulcerative periods of the disease.
The ulcerative form of inflammation is very rare outside of crowded hospitals.
In ulcerative endometritis, and even in the extreme catarrhal form, the parenchyma of the uterus likewise becomes involved.
After the middle of the second week the hemorrhage is generally the result of the laying open of a small artery, either by the detachment of a slough from one of the glands of Peyer or by the involvement of its walls in the ulcerative process.
In one of the cases related above it will be recollected that the ulceration and abscess extended from the fauces to the middle ear, the entire Eustachian tube having disappeared in the ulcerative process.
Cases of peritonitis and retro-peritoneal inflammations secondary to ulcerative processes in the cæcum or the descending colon.
After the middle or end of the third week it is probably always the result of the extension of the ulcerative process to the peritoneal coat.
This disease has also been termed calf diphtheria, gangrenous stomatitis, ulcerative stomatitis, malignant stomatitis, tubercular stomatitis, and diphtheritic patches of the oral mucous membrane.
Defn: Of or pertaining to ulcers; as, an ulcerative process.
Defn: A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.
In addition to the mouth washing in the ulcerative cases it is advisable to use internally chlorate of potash.
A mouth wash may also be used in the ulcerative cases, composed of the peroxide of hydrogen diluted with two parts of water.
Thirdly, Where the ulcerative process has advanced to such an extent, as to destroy the cellular texture, and produce extensive excavation of one or more lobes.
Organic diseases already existing are seriously aggravated; wounds fail to heal, become ulcerative and sometimes gangrenous; while all degenerative processes are rapidly hastened to a fatal issue.
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