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A Report, with Endocrinological and Histopathological Studies, of a Case Which Developed After Surgical Menopause

LEOPOLDO F. MONTES, M.D.; ALONSO CORTES, M.D.; BURTON L. BAKER, Ph.D.; ARTHUR C. CURTIS, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1959;80(5):549-553.

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Most reported cases of Fox-Fordyce disease have occurred in females. The series of Shelley and Levy¹ is the largest to date and includes 14 females but only one male. Winkelmann, Kierland, and Montgomery² found 23 cases in males reported in the literature and added an additional 1 of their own. They believed a reasonable female to male ratio to be 10:1. Shelley and Levy also pointed out that most of the women were in the 13- to 35-year-old age group. The disease has never been observed before puberty³ and only rarely after the menopause.

The present report deals with a patient who developed the condition shortly after a surgical menopause.

Report of a Case

A 44-year-old white woman first noticed transient, mild axillary itching when she was in her late teens. At age 39, three months after hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy performed because of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Ann Arbor, Mich.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 18, 1959.

Departments of Dermatology and Anatomy, University of Michigan Medical School.

Presented at the Ann Arbor Meeting of the Detroit Dermatological Society, Nov. 12, 1958.

Supported in part by the Babcock Urological Fund and by a research grant from the National Institutes of Health, USPHS A-2841.

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