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REPORT OF A CASE

H. V. DWYER, M.D.; G. H. KLINKERFUSS, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1925;11(3):368-371.

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In reviewing the literature on this comparatively rare disease, first definitely described as a clinical entity by Hutchinson¹ and Stokes,² we found that it was at first thought to follow vaccination and vericella. But later writers and investigators, Crocker,³ Elliot,⁴ Zuber,⁵ and others found cases that were definitely of primary origin.

In the cases of primary origin, the patient was usually an ill nourished child under 3 years of age. The lesion started as a papule, becoming a bleb, then a pustule and developing into an ulcer covered by a scab. This when removed left a crater with perpendicular edges and a flat base, usually penetrating all layers of the skin. The gangrenous ulcers were usually situated about the buttocks and thighs.

The cases following varicella, vaccinia or other pustular conditions of the skin were usually situated about the head and trunk, the course of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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ST. LOUIS

Footnotes
Read before the St. Louis Pediatric Society, June 5, 1924.

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