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ISRAEL ZELIGMAN, M.D.; T. LAWRENCE FLEISHER, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1959;80(4):413-420.

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Ichthyosis follicularis occupies a sentence to a few paragraphs in most representative textbooks of dermatology. Our interest in this entity was recently stimulated when we had the opportunity to study two patients who presented cutaneous abnormalities characteristic of ichthyosis follicularis. A study of our cases and of the very few reports in the literature inspired a critical analysis of this disease.

Report of Cases

CASE 1.—An 8-year-old, mentally retarded, Negro boy was seen in dermatologic consultation on April 19, 1958, at the Rosewood State Training School because of extensive alopecia.

The family history revealed no maternal abnormalities. Two paternal cousins suffered from mental illness of an unknown nature, and one paternal cousin was epileptic. The patient's two siblings were without mental retardation or cutaneous abnormalities.

The pregnancy was free of complications, and the delivery was noninstrumental. Scalp hair was absent at birth. The child's development was re . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Baltimore

From the Subdepartment of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, and from the Rosewood State Training School, Owings Mills, Md.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Feb. 3, 1959.

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