Neuro-fibromatosis of the tongue in a child : together with a note on the classification of incomplete and anomalous cases of Recklinghausen's disease / by F. Parkes Weber.

  • Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.
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[1910]
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Credit: Neuro-fibromatosis of the tongue in a child : together with a note on the classification of incomplete and anomalous cases of Recklinghausen's disease / by F. Parkes Weber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ♦ Neuro-fibromatosis, with Molluscmn Pendulum of the Right Side of the Face.” In his case there were deformities of the cranium, vertebrae, and tibia. In February, 1906, Mr. Ludford Cooper brought forward a case at the Ophtlialmological Society, which he described as “ neuromatous elephantiasis,” in a girl, aged 11 years. In Cooper’s case the outer and lower portions of the frontal bone and the squamous portion of the temporal bone were much more prominent on the affected than on the other side. In 1901 Sir Jonathan Hutchinson * described and figured the case of a woman with multiple molluscous tumours of the skin, whose right cheek was bulged by bony overgrowth ; the right frontal bone was likewise thickened, and the right eye was pushed forward as if by bony growth behind it. At the Society for the Study of Disease in Children, in April, 1907, Dr. Fletcher Beach t showed a case described as one of Recklinghausen’s disease, in a boy, aged 5 years and 10 months, who apparently also had bony thickening in the right temporal region. The most extreme example of this class was doubtless the famous “ elephant man,” whom many must have seen when he was at the London Hospital. Sir Frederick Treves,£ in his description of this “ elephant man,” mentioned that the deformi- ties of the osseous system were limited to the skull, right upper- extremity, and feet. “The proportions of the head were enormously increased, and its general outline was that of a hydrocephalic skull.” There was exuberant papillomatous growth of some parts of his skin. * 'Polyclinic/ London, July, 1901, p. 12. t 'Reports of tlie Society for the Study of Disease in Children/ London, 1907, vol. vii, p. 167. X 'Trans. Path. Soc., Lond./ 1885, vol. xxxvi, p. 494. ADLARD AND SON, IMPR., LONDON AND DORKING.