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REPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

WERNER W. DUEMLING, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1930;21(2):229-250.

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In 1910, Werther¹ first described and reported an unusual cutaneous manifestation (fig. 1) to which he gave the name "dermatitis nodularis necrotica." Since that time, there have appeared reports of only four other cases presenting an identical clinical picture. During the past three years, such a case has been under observation at the University Hospital, and therefore it was deemed advisable to add a detailed description of this case to the existing literature.

Werther's¹ case had been under his observation for eleven years. The patient, a man, presented a chronic and recurrent eruption which was symmetrically placed, and was most marked about the dorsa of the hands and feet, the knees and elbows, the penis and the ears. The eruption consisted of bluish-black papules, averaging in size that of a cherry pit, bluish-red plaques, vesicles filled with blood or blood and pus and ulcers as large as a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Instructor in Dermatology and Syphilology, University of Michigan Medical School ANN ARBOR, MICH.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, July 30, 1929.

Studies and contributions of the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology of the University of Michigan Medical School; service of Dr. Udo J. Wile.

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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