This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (9)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Report of a Case

ARTHUR L. BECK, JR., M.D.; HANS L. KIPPING, M.D.; JOHN T. CRISSEY, M.D.

Arch Dermatol. 1961;83(4):627-629.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Since Sneddon and Wilkinson's original description of 6 cases of subcorneal pustular dermatosis, the number of cases reported has risen to 20.^1-7 From these reports a highly characteristic clinical picture emerges. In otherwise healthy persons, usually female, a recurrent, superficial pustular eruption occurs, often beginning in intertriginous areas and spreading over large areas of the integument to form gyrate and figurate patterns. As the lessions involute, superficial yellowish crusts are formed, which fall off, leaving slight hyperpigmentation and no scarring. Changes in the disease can occur rapidly so that a person relatively free of lesions can develop almost generalized pustulation in a day or two. Mouth lesions and nail dystrophies may occur. The course is chronic with exacerbations and remissions, sometimes for many years.

An additional case, unusually early in onset and protracted in course, is presented here.

Report of a Case

History.—

A 29-year-old woman was first seen . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BUFFALO, N.Y.

From the Department of Dermatology of the E. J. Meyer Memorial Hospital (Dr. James W. Jordon, Director).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Sept. 8, 1960.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?