Mibelli's disease II

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Verruccous lesions of the extremities.

Description

Verruccous lesions of the extremities, mainly on the skin of the fingers and toes, hands, and occasionally knees and elbows. Common in adolescent girls. Mibelli first described the condition at the International Congress in Paris in 1889.

Angiokeratoma was first described by Wyndham Cottle (died 1919) in 1877.

Bibliography

  • W. Cottle:
    Warty growths. St. Georges Hospital Reports, 1879, 9: 753-762.
  • V. Mibelli:
    Di una nuova forma di cheratosi «angiocheratoma.»
    Giornale italiano di dermatologia e venereologia, Torino, 1889, 30: 285-301.
  • L'angiocheratoma. Giornale italiano di dermatologia e venereologia, Torino, 1891, 26: 159-180 and 260-276.

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