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WALTER T. GARFIELD, M.D.; CHARLES W. STEELE, M.D.; JOHN D. HOUGHTON, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1934;30(6):772-778.

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Subcutaneous hemorrhages in lupus erythematosus are rarely mentioned in the textbooks. Alderson and Way,¹ Stuhl,² Jäger and Kohl³ and others have reported cases of gold poisoning in which hemorrhage was a symptom. Cases of the acute hemorrhagic type of lupus erythematosus apparently are rare. Madden,⁴ in 1932, in his review of the literature on lupus erythematosus disseminatus, did not mention cutaneous hemorrhage.

In 1922, Scholtz⁵ reported a case which he designated lupus erythematosus acutus disseminatus haemorrhagicus. Our case was similar to his, except that it had a much shorter course. Scholtz⁵ considered that there are two types of disseminated lupus erythematosus: In one there is gradual diffusion of the disease and the skin lesions remain without change for a long period, after which the disease subsides and the patient recovers or it has a long debilitating course and the patient dies, and in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Visiting Physician for Diseases of the Skin, Boston City Hospital; Associate Professor, Tufts Medical School; House Officer, Skin Service, Boston City Hospital; Third Assistant Pathologist, Boston City Hospital BOSTON

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