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OBSERVATIONS ON THE PHARMACOLOGIC RESPONSES OF VOERNER'S NEVUS ANEMICUS
THOMAS BUTTERWORTH, M.D.;
COMMANDER JOHN D. WALTERS
AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1952;66(3):333-339.
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NEVUS anemicus is a congenital malformation characterized by areas of varying size and shape which appear distinctly paler than the surrounding skin. Most frequently, there is a large pale area with irregular but sharply outlined borders surrounded by smaller satellite spots. The skin of the nevus appears normal in all respects except color and presents no abnormalities in tests for pain, heat and cold, and tactile discrimination. The surrounding skin is normal in color; also, there is no increase of pigmentation at the borders of the nevus. In the majority of cases the lesion is situated on the trunk, although the face and extremities are not exempt.
Rubbing of the nevus with a towel or ice or the application of heat makes it stand out clearly against hyperemic normal skin. If these procedures are carried on too long or too vigorously, the nevus also becomes erythematous, greatly diminish
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Author Affiliations
READING, PA.; (MC), U.S.N.
From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (Herman Beerman, M.D., Chairman), and the Pennhurst State School, Spring City, Pa. (Thomas Butterworth, M.D., Consultant in Dermatology).
Footnotes
The opinions and assertions contained herein are the private ones of the writers and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Navy Department or the Naval establishment at large.
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