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PRELIMINARY REPORT

FRED WISE, M.D.; MAXIMILIAN A. RAMIREZ, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1925;11(6):751-755.

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INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITION

The term "pruritus with lichenification," first suggested by Brocq, is used to designate a fairly well-defined clinical entity more familiarly known as lichen simplex chronicus, and to which the French name neurodermitis is often applied. The condition is a relatively common one in all large centers of population, and many dermatologists consider it a form of eczema. Brocq, in his voluminous contributions, has shown that the condition differs from eczema both clinically and microscopically, and his views and contentions have been confirmed often by other and more recent investigators, such as A. Alexander, Bukovsky and Highman.

Clinically, the condition occurs either as a primary or a secondary eruption. In the primary form, large or small areas of apparently normal skin become more or less intensely pruritic; the patient scratches and rubs these areas until the skin becomes inflamed and later thickened; after a while the affected areas . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read at the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, held at Minneapolis, June, 1924.

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