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NELSON PAUL ANDERSON, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1938;37(5):816-822.

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The purpose of this paper is to call attention to the dermatologic features of a syndrome variously designated as dysphagia and anemia, the dysphagia of anemic women, idiopathic hypochromic anemia and achylic chloranemia, but perhaps better known as the Plummer-Vinson syndrome.

My interest in this syndrome was stimulated by the following case:

REPORT OF A CASE

Mrs. A. C., aged 69, was first seen Nov. 24, 1936, complaining of an eruption on the lower lip of eight weeks' duration. This eruption began shortly after the lower lip had become chapped following sunburn. Since the onset the lip had never resumed its normal appearance. Occasionally painful cracks and fissures had occurred, and the lip had repeatedly scaled. One year before admission the patient had had a similar condition of the lip, which lasted three or four weeks but healed rapidly after the use of zinc oxide ointment.

The past history revealed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Read at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., Cresco, Pa., June 4, 1937.

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