In a previous report15the rarity of metastasizing neoplasms of sweat-gland origin was pointed out. Failure to establish unequivocal criteria for the diagnosis of sweat-gland carcinoma warrants minute examination of all available specimens to obtain more information concerning the biological potentiality of these tumors. The following report concerns a patient with a sweat-gland tumor of the foot of 18 years' duration. A metastatic lesion to an inguinal lymph node occurred 10 months after excision of the primary tumor. Report of Case A 55-year-old white female bookkeeper was first admitted to the Evanston Hospital Association for the present complaint on Sept. 22, 1955. Three previous admissions in 1937 and 1938 were recorded for paratonsillar abscess, septicemia, abscesses of the right thigh and left ankle, and empyema of the pleural cavity with drainage of the empyema and subsequent tonsillectomy. The patient first noted a small tumor on the plantar