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Norman Tobias, M.D.; Robert H. Davis, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1930;21(1):142-146.

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A CASE FOR DIAGNOSIS. Presented by DR. JOSEPH GRINDON.

A white man, aged 26, a student of large frame, muscular and in excellent health presented a small nodule below the right scapula. Most of the time the lesion presented the appearance of an ordinary pigmented mole, unaccompanied by subjective symptoms, but about once a month it passed through a cycle of curious changes occupying about seven or eight days. I observed the lesion in various stages, and through one complete cycle.

On January 29, I first saw the patient. The lesion was then in the quiescent stage, so that I confess I somewhat doubted the patient's account of its strange metamorphoses. On March 4 and 5, I saw it while active and its appearance on each of those days was exactly the same as on corresponding days of the complete cycle to be described later. On April 4, the patient was seen by Dr. Kring, when the appearance of the lesion was similar to that on March 4.

I again saw the patient on April 26. The cycle had commenced anew on the preceding day. There was a central molelike papule, slightly elevated, circular in outline and 4 mm. in diameter. Within it were three dots . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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