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LLOYD W. KETRON, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1957;75(4):585-586.

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In 1916 in the Journal of Cutaneous Diseases, Volume 34, No. 10, Gilchrist and Ketron published "A Unique Case of Atrophy of the Fatty Layer of the Skin, Preceded by the Ingestion of the Fat by Large Phagocytic Cells—Macrophages." This disease later became known as nonsuppurative panniculitis or "Weber-Christian's disease." Our case is given the credit of being the second of this disease published. Pfeifer's was the first, which appeared in the literature under the title of "Uber ein Fall von herdweiser Atrophie des subcutanen Fettgewebes." Our patient was a young girl aged 8 years, who entered the Johns Hopkins Hospital on Oct. 28, 1915, seven months after the beginning of the disease, and remained there for a period of two months. Nothing was found that was significant with reference to the etiology of the affection. On Dec. 21, 1915, she went home with no definite change . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Submitted for publication July 2, 1956.

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