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Occurrence in One Family

MARGUERITE R. LERNER, M.D.; IRWIN M. BRAVERMAN, M.D.

Arch Dermatol. 1962;85(2):229-231.

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We have been following an interesting family of 4, all of whom are afflicted with a skin disease. The father, a man of 33 years whose job is waterproofing basements, has discoid lupus erythematosus (Fig. 1). The mother, a 31-year-old telephone operator, has psoriasis (Fig. 2). Their first child, a boy born in 1951, has been alternatingly diagnosed as having psoriasis or pityriasis rubra pilaris (Figs. 3, 4, 5). The second child, a girl born in 1955, has typical psoriasis.

Report of Cases

Case 1.—

Our first patient was the boy, now 10 years old, who had a history of a red, scaling dermatitis since the age of 6 months that improved during the winter and became worse in summer. When first seen on April 17, 1958, in the Dermatology Outpatient Clinic of the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, the child was covered from head to toe with a dry, scaling dermatitis, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

Section of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 5, 1961.

Dr. Braverman is a Research Fellow of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation.

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