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MAURICE SULLIVAN, M.D.; FRANCIS A. ELLIS, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1939;40(3):422-432.

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In 1931, Mashkilleisson¹ presented an excellent review of epidermodysplasia verruciformis, describing in detail a patient with the generalized form of the disease and reporting briefly on a patient with the localized type. This form of dysplasia was first described in 1922 by Lewandowsky and Lutz² and was reported in the same year by Fuchs.³ Table 1 is a modified summary of the cases included in Mashkilleisson's review. Mashkilleisson¹ stated that the disease was a hereditary dystrophy with a precancerous tendency, because in 20 per cent of the cases previously reported there were cutaneous epitheliomas. The question of whether epidermodysplasia verruciformis is a definite entity or a special type of generalized warts, a view championed by Hoffmann,⁴ has not been settled. Epidermodysplasia verruciformis has been reported under the following titles: verrucosis generalisata,⁵ verrucae dyskeratoticae congenitales,⁶verallgemeinerte Warzenerkrankung, ⁴ verrucae disseminatae,⁷warzigen Naevi . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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BALTIMORE

From the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Department of Dermatology.

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