Treatment

Piffard says: "Excision is the only practicable method of treatment, and this is to be recommended only when the tumors are few in number, or when their situation demands it."
Fox says the treatment is simple: "When small, fibromata may be removed. In elderly men they are sometimes small, flat, and numerous - especially about the back, over the shoulders, and on the chest. I have never had the least trouble in getting rid of them all by the use of acid nitrate of mercury caustic to the smaller, and the joint use of that remedy and the ligature to the larger ones. I generally, after applying the acid, give an oxide of zinc paste to be used, to prevent too much irritation."

The Arsenite of calcarea and Lycopodium are the principal internal remedies.

There is yet another form of fibrous hypertrophy, in which greater laxity of tissue is observed.