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REPORT OF TWO CASES FEATURING ABSENCE OF CUTANEOUS LESIONS OVER SOME OF THE CRURAL TRIBUTARIES OF THE INTERNAL SAPHENOUS VEINS

E. WILLIAM ABRAMOWITZ, M.D.; LUDWIG ISAAK, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1939;40(1):13-18.

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We recently encountered a case of classic localized cutaneous lichenoid amyloidosis of the legs in which papules were absent over some of the superficial crural veins. One of us (L. I.) had observed a case of similar involvement abroad. This unusual distribution of the lesions has not been mentioned in other cases of localized cutaneous amyloidosis cited in the literature and is the subject of this report.

REPORT OF CASES

Case 1.—

Mr. J. O. appeared at the Skin and Cancer Unit of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital on Aug. 29, 1938. He was 62 years of age, of Austrian birth, married and a cigar maker. His habits were regular, and except for occasional constipation he had always been in good health. He had undergone hemorrhoidectomy twenty-eight years before, and about ten years before had begun to complain of itching of the legs, which was soon followed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Skin and Cancer Unit of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, Columbia University.

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