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WALTER C. LOBITZ, Jr., M.D.; N. H. HANOVER; ROBERT R. KIERLAND, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1951;64(4):411-416.

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IN RECENT years it has been shown clinically and experimentally¹ that miliaria rubra is a phenomenon of sweat retention resulting from hyperkeratotic plugging of the orifices of the sweat glands. The patient whose case we are reporting had generalized miliaria rubra associated with anhidrosis and subnormal absorption and utilization of vitamin A.

REPORT OF A CASE

The patient was a white male physician, 64 yr. old, from Illinois, whose chief complaint was that of generalized pruritus of two-and-a-half years' duration and intolerance to heat of one-year's duration. The generalized pruritus either was more intense during hot weather or was associated with physical exertion. Roughness of the skin was noted by the patient during this time, but no eruption was observed until a year before study at the Mayo Clinic, when an urticarial, macular, and erythematous dermatosis developed first on the exposed portions of the body and gradually progressed to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Hitchcock Clinic, Dartmouth College (Dr. Lobitz) and the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology, Mayo Clinic (Dr. Kierland).

Footnotes
This work was done while Dr. Lobitz was a Fellow in Dermatology and Syphilology, Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn.

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