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REPORT OF TWO CASES

WILLIAM DIRECTOR, M.D.; SAMUEL M. BLUEFARB, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1942;46(4):480-482.

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The following report is of the occurrence of acrodermatitis in 2 sisters. In 1 of them the lesions were in the indurated stage and a juxta-articular node was present. In the other the disease was already in the atrophic stage, although apparently of shorter duration.

REPORT OF CASES

Case 1.—

M. H., the first patient observed, was a white married woman, aged 44, who had come to the United States from Czechoslovakia two years previously. The earliest lesions noticed were those on the right elbow, which appeared in 1937. In 1939 itching occurred on the right hand and was followed by redness. The patient stated that she "had always been cold" and required more blankets to keep her warm at night than did other members of her family. She had had two children; one of them had died of tuberculosis at the age of 23, and the other was still . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, New York University College of Medicine, and the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, Third (New York University) Medical Division, Bellevue Hospital, service of Dr. Frank C. Combes.

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