TY  - JOUR
T1  - CHancre of the fingers
AU  - MONTGOMERY DW, CULVER GD
Y1  - 1919/01/18
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610030026009
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 180
EP  - 181
VL  - 72
IS  - 3
N2  - Physicians, especially gynecologists and obstetricians, are particularly liable to syphilitic infection of the fingers. Nurses, one would think, are in almost the same danger in their professional work; but in them we have seen fewer instances of this unfortunate accident. Case 1 is a typical and instructive instance:CHANCRE OF THE FINGERS SIMULATING PARONYCHIA 
    Case 1. 
    —June 19, 1913, a professional nurse was referred to us for a continuance of her treatment. Toward the end of the previous February she acquired what appeared to be a pyogenic infection under the edge of the right thumb nail. Shortly afterward a similar infection showed itself under the free edge of the nail of the left index finger, presumably following a wound with a safety pin. Both nails were evulsed, May 7. In both, therefore, the suppurative process had lasted considerably more than two months. A characteristic papular eruption, and mucous patches in
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610030026009
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610030026009
ER  -