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Arch Dermatol. 2001;137:1291.

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VOL. XIX.

OCTOBER, 1901.

NO. 10.

Original Communications.

THE CAUSE OF THE STREAKS IN NÆVUS LINEARIS.

By DOUGLASS W. MONTGOMERY, M.D.,
Professor of Diseases of the Skin, University of California.

IT is evident that the arrangement of the warts in linear nævus is not owing to chance, it has an anatomical basis. Just what this anatomical basis is has engaged the attention of a great number of observers, and the motive of this present paper is to bring before you a case, which may throw some light on this matter. . . .

The theories are that:

1.—The lines follow the course of the cutaneous nerves;

2.—The lines run along what are called Voight's lines;

3.—The lines follow the lines of cleavage of the skin;

4.—The lines follow the course of the blood vessels;

5.—The lines run in the metameres or segments of the body;

6.—That the lines lie along . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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