Collins describes a negress of ninety, born of African parents,
who exhibited multiple keloids produced by diverse injuries. At
fourteen she was burned over her breasts by running against a
shovelful of hot coals, and several months later small tumors
appeared, which never suppurated. When a young girl a tumor was
removed from the front of her neck by operation, and cicatricial
tumors then spread like a band encircling one-half her neck.
There were keloids over her scapulae, which followed the
application of blisters. On her back, over, and following the
direction of the ribs, were growths attributed to the wounds
caused by a flogging. This case was quite remarkable for the
predisposition shown to keloid at an early age, and the variety
of factors in causation.
About 1867 Duhring had under his observation at the Philadelphia
Hospital a negro whose neck was encircled by enormous keloids,
which, although black, otherwise resembled tomatoes. A photograph
of this remarkable case was published in Philadelphia in 1870.
A lipoma is a tumor consisting of adipose tissue. When there is
much fibrous tissue in the tumor it is much firmer, and is known
as a fibro-lipoma. Brander describes a young native of Manchuria,
North China, from whom he removed a fibro-lipoma weighing 50
pounds.
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