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INFLUENCE OF AGE ON INCIDENCE AND TYPE OF LESIONS

M. H. GOODMAN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1941;43(2):248-256.

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Observations have been made with respect to the types of cutaneous lesions which are apt to predominate in patients with dermatitis herpetiformis at certain age levels.

It has been brought out by Brocq¹ that the peaks of incidence in dermatitis herpetiformis apparently fall at about the age of 20 and at about the age of 60. On the other hand, Zieler² recently noted that the greatest incidence of pemphigus is between the ages of 30 and 50 years.

Reports by several authors were studied to note the age of each patient and his or her predominant type of lesion. Reports of the disease in children were excluded from this study. In compiling the data, the patients were divided into two age groups, one ranging from 16 to 49 years and the other from 50 and over. A review of the literature shows that in patients 50 years of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

From the Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the Ninety-First Annual Session of the American Medical Association, New York, June 12, 1940.

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