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Report of Two Cases of a Plaque Type Associated with Hypertension

S. IRGANG, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;74(3):245-249.

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Whitfield dissociated from erythema induratum a group of nontuberculous conditions.^* It consisted of several clinical entities, one of which is now recognized as nodular vasculitis. Montgomery, O'Leary, and Barker introduced the term nodular vasculitis to describe a chronic painful, usually nonulcerative, nodular eruption occurring chiefly on the legs of middle-aged or older women; histologically, the principal changes occur in the subcutaneous layer of the cutaneous lesion and consist mainly of an obliterative vasculitis associated with fat necrosis and fibrosis.⁴

The lesions of nodular vasculitis may coalesce to form plaques, and, in my experience, a plaque type of lesion may originate as such. I wish to present two cases of a plaque type of nodular vasculitis which occurred in Negro women with hypertension.

Report of Cases

CASE 1.—A 51-year-old Negro woman, 5 ft. 61/2 in. (168.9 cm.) in height and 1981/2 lb. (90 kg.) in weight, entered the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology of the Harlem Hospital, Dr. Alexander Altschul, Medical Director.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 3, 1955.

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