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A. W. STILLIANS, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1947;56(1):64-69.

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DERMATOLOGISTS generally agree that, with the exception of the orificial ulcer, tuberculous lesions of the skin are seldom seen in patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis. They occur more often in patients with latent foci and active cutaneous response to tuberculin. There are, however, two nontuberculous diseases of the skin, acne vulgaris and dermatitis seborrheica, which often accompany pulmonary tuberculosis. So often does this occur that acne has been suspected of having a tuberculous basis. Ramel¹ reported in 1930 that he had found acid-fast bacilli in material from acne lesions and by animal inoculation confirmed his suspicion that they were tubercle bacilli. He considered acne "an expression of a natural vaccination of the organism against tuberculosis." In the same year Griesbach² explained acne in the tuberculous as due to the exhaustion of the reticuloendothelial system by the toxins of tuberculosis, thus making the skin more susceptible to other organisms. By clinical investigation he determined . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Read at the Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., Hot Springs, Va., June 13, 1946.

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