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Tinea Versicolor in Steroid-Treated PatientsIncidence in Patients with Chronic Ulcerative Colitis and Regional Enteritis Treated with Corticotropin and Corticosteroids
CHARLES R. BOARDMAN, M.D.;
FREDERICK D. MALKINSON, M.D.
Arch Dermatol. 1962;85(1):44-52.
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Introduction
Since the advent and widespread use of corticosteroids much has been written about the undesirable effects of these drugs. In the past decade the influence of corticosteroids on cutaneous and systemic fungous infections in man and animals has received its share of attention.1-4 However, no systematic research into the possible effects of corticosteroids on tinea versicolor was available, although it was our own clinical impression that there was a higher than expected incidence of this infection in patients with Cushing's syndrome. This observation was confirmed by examining the charts of the 22 patients with Cushing's syndrome hospitalized at The University of Chicago Clinics since 1948. It was found that 3 of these patients had tinea versicolor infections, substantiated by positive KOH preparations. It therefore seemed worthwhile to study the incidence of tinea versicolor in a large number of patients treated with adrenal steroids and corticotropin, as compared with
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Author Affiliations
CHICAGO
From the Section of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Aug. 4, 1961.
Read before the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Section on Dermatology, New York, June 28, 1961.
This work was supported in part by the Research and Development Division of the Office of the Surgeon General, Department of the Army, under Contract No. DA-49-007-MD-411 and in part by a USPHS Research Grant No. E-1444(C5).
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