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ITS RELATION TO ACRODERMATITIS CONTINUA VEL PERSTANS

FRANCIS A. ELLIS, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1936;33(6):963-966.

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In 1888 Radcliffe Crocker¹ first described acrodermatitis repens. Two years later Hallopeau² reported a case of chronic suppuration of the fingers of a patient who had Raynaud's disease. The pustules were not confined to the digits affected by the vasomotor disturbances but were present on other fingers and on the mucous membrane of the mouth. The lesions were superficial; they involuted rapidly and dried within twenty-four hours. Two years later Hallopeau reported another case, in a patient who had had a benign form of psoriasis since childhood. The pustular eruption appeared on the left thumb after an injury caused by a blow of a hammer. Within two years the eruption spread and involved the other digits and the palm. Staphylococci were present in the lesions.

More recently the literature has been reviewed and added to by Ingram,³ Audry,⁴ Dore,⁵ Barber and Eyre,⁶ Barber, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

Footnotes
Presented before the Baltimore-Washington Dermatological Society, Feb. 21, 1935.

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