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Janeway lesions and Osier's nodes: A review of histopathologic findings

1990; Elsevier BV; Volume: 22; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0190-9622(90)70157-d

1097-6787

Alice C. Cardullo, David N. Silvers, Marc E. Grossman,

History of Medical Practice

The histologic findings in Osler's nodes and Janeway lesions have been reported rarely; we found descriptions of only 10 such cases, mostly from the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature. We found gram-positive coccobacilli in the dermal abscess of a Janeway lesion from a patient with bacterial endocarditis. This finding suggests that septic microemboli are the cause.