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Report of a Case

ARTHUR NORINS, M.D.; HOWARD YAFFEE

AMA Arch Derm. 1957;76(3):357-358.

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A 61-year-old white man was admitted to the Chicago Veterans' Administration Research Hospital in August, 1956, with a severe exacerbation of widespread psoriasis. In 1949, when he was in another Veterans' Administration Hospital with complaints of psoriasis and hoarseness of six months' duration, physicians of the Ear, Nose, and Throat Department had noted glossitis and dusky erythema of the oral, pharyngeal, and laryngeal mucosae. There was no evidence of vitamin deficiency or anemia. Appropriate local measures and chemotherapy resulted in improvement of the hoarseness and the "chronic pharyngitis and laryngitis." Palatal erythema, however, persisted throughout the entire hospitalization period. Over the next seven years he was admitted to the hospital on four occasions for treatment of ex

tensive psoriasis. On three of these occasions both atrophy of the papillae of the tongue and palatal erythema were noted. Treatment consisted of innumerable courses of vitamins, hematinics, and all . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chicago; Ann Arbor, Mich.

From the Veterans Administration Hospital and the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology, Northwestern University Medical Center.

Footnotes
Received for publication March 28, 1957.

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