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Report of a Case

WILLARD L. MARMELZAT, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1951;63(6):759-763.

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IN RECENT years there has been interest in the lesions of the skin associated with vitamin A deficiency. Since Frazier and Hu first reported the syndrome in 1931¹ and subsequently investigated the cutaneous variations from infancy to puberty among Chinese children, there have been numerous studies from different countries, including our own.

The following case is being reported because, in addition to the interesting cutaneous lesions in a child, it presents accompanying ocular and renal manifestations of the vitamin A deficiency state. A search of the literature indicates that the circumscribed areas of xerosis of the conjunctiva (``Bitot'' spots) and the metabolic calcinoses of both kidneys which were present in this child in combination with the skin lesions of avitaminosis A have not hitherto been described in the United States.

REPORT OF CASE

History.—

F. L. D., a 10 year old white girl, was admitted to the John Sealy . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
LOS ANGELES

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, University of Texas, Galveston.

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