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GEORGE M. MacKEE, M.D.; GEORGE M. LEWIS, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1931;23(3):445-471.

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The condition known in America as keratolysis exfoliativa was named by Wende¹ in 1919, who described it as characterized by more or less symmetrical, circumscribed patches of superficial exfoliation encountered most frequently on the palms, less often on the soles and occasionally on the dorsal surfaces of the hands and feet and on the arms and legs. Caryon,² unknown to Wende, had previously written of a similar disease under a different title, and Lane³ concluded that the two diseases were identical. More recently, several observers in Europe, notably Seemann and Rajka⁴ and Alexander,⁵ studied the disease. Bruhns and Alexander,⁶ in Jadassohn's "Handbuch," gave an excellent detailed description of it under the title "dysidrosis lamellosa sicca."

The disease is common and is seen in varying degrees of severity. It begins with white macules, varying in size from that of a pinhead to that of a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, March 1, 1930.

Read before the American Dermatological Association, Cleveland, June 20, 1930.

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