This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

REPORT OF A CASE WITH AUTOPSY

THOMAS BUTTERWORTH, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1936;34(4):676-680.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Although death from exfoliative dermatitis is not uncommon, there are comparatively few reports of cases in which autopsy has been performed. In 1933 Poole and Wehger¹ found seventeen reports of cases in the literature and contributed four more. To these may be added the case reported by Allison² and that by Nelson,³ making a total of twenty-three cases recorded in which autopsy was performed.

The pathologic changes described in the reports of cases have varied greatly. No particular organ or combination of organs has been uniformly involved. The lungs have been the most frequent site of involvement, presenting the following conditions, named in the order of frequency: bronchopneumonia, desquamation of the bronchial mucosa, edema, hemorrhagic infarcts and multiple abscesses. Fatty degeneration and cloudy swelling have been the most frequent changes noted in the liver. The kidneys have been described as being large and pale, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
READING, PA.

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology of the Reading Hospital.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?