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M. H. Goodman, M.D.
Baltimore.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1939;40(2):272-273.

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To the Editor:—

In a recent issue of the ARCHIVES (39:679 [April] 1939), Drs. Howard Hailey and Hugh Hailey presented a report of 4 cases under the designation "familial benign chronic pemphigus." They expressed the belief that this is a dermatologic entity heretofore undescribed.

The first 2 patients were brothers, and the eruption of both was chronic, recurring and limited to the neck, being sometimes bilateral and sometimes unilateral. The lesions were pruritic and began as "blisters," which came on in attacks, new ones frequently appearing while old ones were regressing. The same features were shown by the other 2 patients, also brothers (observed by Dr. J. Richard Allison), except that the lesions appeared about the axillary folds, groins, legs and body. The condition in all 4 cases was unaccompanied with constitutional signs or symptoms.

The authors described the eruption in their cases as consisting of sharply marginated amber-colored . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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