Rhinoscleroma
Describe rhinoscleroma.
Rhinoscleroma is a rare and obscure disease, slow but progressive in its course, characterized by the development of an irregular, dense and hard, flattened, tubercular, non-ulcerating, cellular new growth, having its seat about the nose and contiguous parts. The overlying skin is normal in color, or it may be light- or dark-brown or reddish. Marked disfigurement and closure, partial or complete, of the nasal orifices gradually results. It is met with chiefly in Austria and Germany.
Treatment, consisting of partial or complete extirpation, is rarely permanent in its results, the disease tending to recur.