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Report of a Case

HUGO HECHT, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1958;78(1):89-90.

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A 41-year-old white man had a skin condition of six years' duration. There was nothing unusual except the localization: numerous distinct follicular lesions, each separated from the others by normal skin, formed a ring at the outside of the lower part of the thorax and the abdomen. Inside this ring the skin was normal. Only a few isolated follicular lesions were seen below the navel toward the mons veneris, suggesting the male type of pubic hairiness, but there were no pubic hairs in the center of the hyperkeratotic lesions. The inguinal regions were richly covered with typical lesions circling upward as a thin band to the lower arch of the ribs. Otherwise, the skin of the body was normal. The clinical diagnosis was pityriasis rubra pilaris. This was confirmed by the histopathological findings of Dr. B. S. Kline: "There is hyperkeratosis especially at the hair follicles. Moderate acanthosis. The . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cleveland

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan. 21, 1958.

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