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Destructive Granuloma of the Nose. Presented by Dr. W. H. Connor.
C. H., a man aged 42, from the service of Dr. Cole and Dr. Driver at the City Hospital, was presented before this society in March 1932 (Arch. Dermat. & Syph. 26:773 [Oct.] 1932), at which time he was admitted to the hospital because of an extragenital chancre of the chin, associated with a generalized secondary eruption on the body. At that time the patient was receiving treatment for secondary syphilis. It was noted that there was an ulcerative process involving the right ala nasi; this, according to the patient, had been progressing slowly for five or six years. Antisyphilitic treatment had no effect on the lesion of the nose. The possibility of rhinoscleroma was considered, but as the patient did not come from Austria or southern Russia there was slight probability of that disorder, and subsequently examination