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Arch Dermatol. 2008;144(7):842.

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THE JOURNAL OF CUTANEOUS DISEASES
VOL. XXVI.
JULY, 1908.
NO. 7

By CHARLES J. WHITE, M. D., Instructor of Dermatology in Harvard University.

On February 21, 1908, a man was referred to the Skin Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital from the Orthopædic Room, where he was being treated for an acute synovitis of the knee.

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The youngest lesions, most striking because of their relative numbers, size and formation were approximately ten millimeters in long diameter and were composed of peripherally set, contiguous but distinct, flat-topped, muddy white, softish papules, one and one-half millimeters in diameter, arranged in an oval or circle around a central, blue-red, relatively sunken, velvety skin. This contrast in color was most evident when the skin over the nodules was put on the stretch and then in a way the whole arrangement suggested a sapphire brooch . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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