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MORRIS LEIDER, M.D.; ALEXANDER A. FISHER, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1949;60(6):1160-1166.

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MOST accounts of leukoderma acquisitum centrifugum do not make clear what, if anything, ultimately happens to the central hyperpigmented spots that make this condition so distinctive. Neither Sutton,¹ who originally described the picture minutely after Hyde² had noted it, nor Leider and Cohen³ in their recent review discussed the eventual disposition of the moles. However, a few of the intervening observers,⁴ particularly in the foreign literature, remarked that the central pigmentations sometimes disappear. To quote one, Kuske^4c wrote that " . . . one gets . . . the impression, from history and objective finding, that in some of the lesions undergoing enlargement, the nevus in the center is gradually obliterated by the depigmenting process . . ."⁵

In 1 of Sutton's 2 original cases, the mother of the patient (a child), stated that the central spot had not been present before the onset of the depigmentation. In consequence of such observations on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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BROOKLYN; WOODSIDE, N. Y.

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