This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By L. Arzt and J. Tappeiner. Four hundred fourteen color reproductions on 116 plates with legends in Latin and an attached booklet of 87 pages in which the salient features of each picture are pointed out in German. Urban and Schwarzenberg, Frankgasse 4, Wien 14, 1953.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1954;69(2):256.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

This is the second volume of the monumental work by the Austrian dermatologists. The first, which is entirely devoted to syphilis, was reviewed in the A.M.A. ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLOGY in August, 1951 (64:254). In the present volume an astounding array of diseases of the skin are portrayed, ranging from the common ones to those of most infrequent occurrence. In some, variety of form is presented in detail; there are 16 illustrations of lichen planus, the rare bullous form being reproduced with surprising fidelity. Exhaustive attention is given also to psoriasis, with 22 different aspects being shown. Changes in the nails are covered widely.

There are many illustrations of commonly encountered dermatoses, reproductions of which in color are rarely published. Representative of such are trichomycosis axillaris, xanthelasma, molluscum contagiosum, milium, seborrheic verruca, and superficial fungous infections, to mention only a few. The less familiar dermatoses, also well-portrayed, include . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?