ON ADENOMA SEBACEUM. BUSCHKE. (_Derm. Zeitschr._, Bd. xi., Heft 7,
p. 467.)
The patient was a boy, aged 13 years, in whom the eruption of small
tumours had occurred at the age of five, coming out suddenly after an
attack of measles. The distribution and appearance of the single lesions
on the face was of the characteristic type of reddish-brown nodules
situated on the nose and contiguous portions of the cheeks. He had also
numerous fibromata on the back, and a widespread eruption of small, pale
yellow, seed-like tumours all over the back, the little tumours
resembling milium, and on close examination appearing to be pierced by
lanugo hairs. A histological examination of all classes of tumour showed
them to be either pure fibromata or angio-fibromata, though Buschke
admits that in the case of the face tumours the excision was so
superficial that it is possible that deep sebaceous glands might be
present below the point at which the excision took place. The boy was
clever at work, and generally showed no physical or mental defect other
than the presence of the cutaneous anomaly.