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Abstract The term mycetoma is used at the present time to include maduromycosis and actinomycosis. In 1846, before the causes of these chronic inflammatory conditions were known, Colebrook1 first recorded in the literature the geographico-anatomic name, Madura foot. Carter,2 in his monograph published in 1874, designated them on the basis of etiology and pathology by the term mycetoma (meaning fungus tumor). The term maduromycosis was introduced in 1916 by Chalmers and Archibald3 to apply to an etiologic subgroup of mycetoma, which they distinguish from actinomycosis. Actinomycosis, as caused by Actinomyces bovis, has been known since the work of Bollinger in 1878, and as many of the organisms isolated from cases of Madura foot or mycetoma of the foot have been found to belong to the genus Actinomyces, actinomycosis likewise has become a subgroup of the mycetomas. Although progress has been made during the last decade in respect to References 1. Chalmers, A. J., and Christopherson, J. B.: A Sudanese Actinomycosis , Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasitol. 10:223, 1916. 2. Carter, H. Vandyke: On Mycetoma or the Fungus Disease of India . London, Churchill, 1874, p. 118. 3. Chalmers, A. J., and Archibald, R. G.: A Sudanese Maduromycosis , Ann. Trop. Med. & Parasitol. 10:169, 1916. 4. Gammel, J. A.: The Etiology of Maduromycosis with a Mycologic Report of Two New Species Observed in the United States , Arch. Dermat. & Syph. 15:241 ( (March) ) 1927. 5. Thompson, H. L., and Ikeda, Kano: Maduromycosis: Fourth Case Reported in the United States, Arch. Surg. (In press.) 6. Castellani, A., and Chalmers, A. J.: Manual of Tropical Medicine , ed. 3, New York, William Wood & Co., 1919, pp. 2110-2149. 7. Colebrook, cited in footnotes 1 and 3. 8. Pinoy, E.: Actinomycosis et mycétomes , Bull. de l'Inst. Pasteur 11:929 and 977, 1913. 9. Brumpt, Emile: Précis de parasitologie , ed. 3, Paris, Masson, 1922, pp. 965-969. 10. Langeron, Maurice: Mycétomes , in Nouveau traité de médicine , Paris. Masson, 4:445, 1925. 11. Kanthack, A. A.: Madura Disease (Mycetoma) and Actinomycosis , J. Path. & Bacteriol. 1:140, 1893. 12. Boyce, R., and Surveyor, N. F.: Upon the Existence of More Than One Fungus in Madura Foot (Mycetoma) , Phil. Tr. Roy. Soc., London 185:1, 1895. 13. Hyde, J. N.; Senn, Nicholas, and Bishop, D. D.: A Contribution to the Study of Mycetoma of the Foot as It Occurs in America , J. Cutan. Dis. 14:1, 1896. 14. Wright, J. H.: A Case of Mycetoma (Madura Foot) , J. Exper. Med. 3:421, 1898. 15. Boyd, M. F., and Crutchfield, E. D.: A Contribution to the Study of Mycetoma in North America , Am. J. Trop. Med. 1:215, 1921. 16. Gammel, J. A.; Miskdjian, H., and Thatcher, H. S.: Madura Foot (Mycetoma); the Black Grain Variety in a Native American , Arch. Dermat. & Syph. 13:66 ( (Jan.) ) 1926. 17. Bocarro, J. E.: An Analysis of One Hundred Cases of Mycetoma , Lancet 2:797, 1893. 18. Bergey, D. H.: Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology , ed. 2, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Company, 1925, pp. 345-398. 19. Woolrabe, Frederick: Curability of Madura Foot , J. Trop. Med. & Hyg. 21:146, 1918. 20. Audrain, L. C.: A Case of Mycetoma , J. A. M. A. 83:1165 ( (Oct. 11) ) 1924. 21. Palmer, F. J.: A Case of Madura Foot Treated by Chemotherapy: Apparent Cure , Indian Med. Gaz. 61:74. 1926.
Archives of Surgery – American Medical Association
Published: Mar 1, 1928
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