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D. L. Satenstein, M.D.; Ludwig Oulmann, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1928;18(3):472-477.

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ACRODERMATITIS CHRONIC ATROPHICANS. Presented by DR. SCHEER.

A woman, married, aged 52, born in the United States, presented a lesion on the left hand and forearm. The condition began over the knuckles of the left hand twelve years before presentation and gradually spread upward to just above the elbow. At the time of the patient's first visit, there was a dermatitis (the skin was bright red, scaly and itchy), which cleared up within a few days with applications of wet dressings and boric acid ointment. The affected areas, i. e., the dorsum of the hand and both surfaces of the forearms, were violaceous red and showed anetodermia (atrophy and wrinkling). On the flexor of the forearm was an island of normal skin. Part of the upper margin of the lesion appeared as a sharply defined, somewhat serpiginous, elevated, firm red border about 1/8 of an inch wide (3.17 mm.), suggesting strongly a tertiary serpiginous syphiloderm. A biopsy from this border, as reported by Dr. Satenstein, showed a typical picture of acrodermatitis. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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