—Molluscum contagiosum, sometimes known as epithelial molluscum, is a name applied to small warty growths more or less embedded in the skin, from which, by pressure, some epithelial debris can be forced out. The lesions are rarely single and yet rarely numerous. They may be met upon any part of the body, especially upon exposed portions. They are doubtless results of skin infections by various organisms. The best treatment is excision, although they may be split and cauterized and thus made to shrivel, or the same effect may be produced by electrolysis.
Fig. 107
Keloid occurring in a laparotomy scar. (Lexer.)
Keloid.
—This has already been mentioned under the heading Fibroma, in the chapter on Cysts and Tumors. It deserves further mention here, however, because of the disfigurement produced by keloid scars, and because the spontaneous expressions of the disease may occasionally demand surgical intervention. In cicatricial tissue it often follows the scars left by burns or excision of tuberculous lesions. Since subcutaneous sutures have been introduced there is less keloid than there was years ago ([Fig. 107]).
PLATE XXIX
Keloid. (Hardaway.)