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A PROBABLY UNRECOGNIZED ENTITY

JEFFREY C. MICHAEL, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1930;21(2):215-228.

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In the past several years, I have seen three patients presenting discrete hyperkeratotic patches on the dorsum and lateral surfaces of the hands, about which no satisfactory description seems to appear in the literature. From correspondence with physicians of large experience, it appears that these cases are not uncommon and that they may be representatives of an unrecognized entity. My search through the literature, fairly thorough as far back as 1919, but incomplete for the period before that, does not reveal any article that bears directly on these cases. Probably they have passed for manifestations of one of the more common disorders of the skin but I think that such a ready assumption will not bear close scrutiny.

Briefly, the lesions appear only on the back or lateral surfaces of the hands, bilaterally but not symmetrically, as discrete, slightly raised patches varying in color. The predominant color is yellow, but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
HOUSTON, TEXAS

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, July 30, 1929.

Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the Eightieth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Portland, Ore., July 10, 1929.

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