This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Clinicoanatomic Study

BEATRICE H. KUHN, M.D.; LALLA IVERSON, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1948;57(5):891-899.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

THE TERM pemphigus is applied to a group of relapsing, usually fatal, bullous eruptions. The cause of pemphigus vulgaris remains obscure, and no specific treatment is known to be uniformly effective.

Recently much discussion has centered on the role of the adrenal gland in pemphigus, together with the associated characteristic electrolyte pattern and the fluid balance,¹ the results of adrenal cortex replacement therapy² and the anatomic changes seen in the adrenal gland on postmortem examination.³ Since little attention has been directed to complete postmortem studies, the following 4 cases are reported as a contribution to the total knowledge concerning pemphigus vulgaris.

REPORT OF CASES

Case 1.—

T. O. M., a 38 year old white male truck driver, was admitted to the hospital complaining of a "sore mouth and body rash of thirteen months' duration." He was seen by his physician at the onset of his present illness; . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHARLESTON, W. VA.; DURHAM, N. C.

From the Department of Dermatology, Duke Hospital, and the Department of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, N. C.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Facebook    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?