RT Journal
A1 Montoro W
T1 MAdura foot in cuba
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD March 15
VO 72
IS 11
SP 817
OP 817
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610110049022
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610110049022
AB To the Editor: 
    —In Queries and Minor Notes (The Journal, No. 16, 1918, p. 1684) appeared a communication about Madura foot (mycetoma) in the United States. In the bibliography appended to the note, no mention is made of a very detailed monograph about the matter, written in 1901 by Drs. Antonio Diaz Albertini and Cárlos M. Desvernine, and read before the Tercer Congreso Pan Americano, held in Havana in February, 1901, and published in the Revista de Medicina Tropical, May, 1901, and reprinted in the Boletín "Sanidad y Beneficencia," March-April, 1918, pp. 319-330, in the Section "Historia Médica de Cuba," by Dr. José F. de Pazos, with the photographs of the two cases studied. These cases are of interest as being the first cases of Madura foot found and described in Cuba. Dr. Vincent of Val de Grâce, who studied the histologic findings, sent to him by Dr. Diaz Albertini,