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A THIRD CASE OF MONOSPOROSIS IN A NATIVE AMERICAN

MOSES GELLMAN, M.D.; JOHN A. GAMMEL, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1933;26(2):295-307.

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In some countries the deep mycoses are called surgical mycoses. Presenting, as they do at times, a surgical problem, the report of a case of Madura foot seems appropriate, as the surgeon is most likely to see such conditions in the initial stages of the disease when the diagnosis is most difficult.

The term "Madura foot" was coined by the natives of India to designate a deformity of the foot most commonly seen in the vicinity of Madura, a town situated in the southern part of Deccan, at the foot of the Eastern Ghats. When Vandyke Carter,¹ in 1860, established the fungous nature of the condition, he introduced the term "mycetoma"—tumor due to a fungus. This prominent English author in later years recognized the close resemblance of the condition to actinomycosis. During the following decades, a number of widely different fungi were thought to be the cause of mycetoma, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Associate in Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Maryland BALTIMORE; Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology, Western Reserve University CLEVELAND

From the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology of the Lakeside Hospital and of the Western Reserve University, School of Medicine, Cleveland.

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