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Marion B. Sulzberger, M.D.; J. Lowry Miller, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1954;69(2):237-246.

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Sclerema Neonatorum. Subcutaneous Fat Necrosis. Presented by DR. LESLIE P. BARKER.

A Negro girl, aged 5 months, has hardness of the buttocks of two days' duration. The infant was admitted to St. Luke's Hospital because of an inflammatory hardness of the buttocks and lower back of two days' duration. On admission the child was 10 days old; she had been delivered by Caesarean section following 26 hours of nonprogressing labor. The patient had never been breast fed. While in the hospital the infant received three daily intragluteal injections of penicillin for pneumonitis. The day after taking the baby home the mother noticed both buttocks were hard, and the hardness spread up over the back and posterior thighs.

Mother had two other children, 25 and 27 years old. On admission the infant, 10 days old, appeared to be a well-developed and nourished Negro baby, in no acute distress but irritable when . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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